Anthropic’s draft AI bill draws fire for setting a high bar on federal action

A confidential proposal shown to US lawmakers would let regulators halt a frontier model only when the danger is imminent and catastrophic Anthropic , the company behind the Claude family of AI models, has handed US lawmakers a draft federal bill on frontier AI safety. It is the company’s own blueprint for how Washington should police companies like Anthropic. Critics are not impressed. One opinion piece calls the proposal a fairly transparent attempt to calm public fears that Anthropic’s own people helped stoke, and argues that governments, not AI firms, should be writing the rules. The confidential proposal was drafted in mid-October 2026. It has not been formally introduced as legislation, so for now it is a pitch, not a law.

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