Anthropic Pitches Congress AI Safety Bill with $1 Billion, 50-Death Threshold for Model Shutdowns

Anthropic has quietly pitched U.S. lawmakers a frontier AI safety bill that would allow the government to block a powerful AI model only when it presents an imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damage or the deaths or serious injuries of more than 50 people. The proposal would also place a federal judge, not government agencies alone, in the position of ordering an AI model' s suspension. The confidential draft, obtained by POLITICO, represents a significant attempt by the AI company to shape federal rules governing the technology it develops, as Congress considers competing approaches to frontier AI regulation.

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