Anthropic’s AEGIS Act Lets AI Labs Pay Their Own Auditors While Gutting State Oversight

As AI companies pour a record $43.3 million into the 2026 midterm elections, OpenSecrets data analyzed by NPR shows Congress is heading to the polls nine days from now without a single federal AI safety law on the books. The company best positioned to change that is Anthropic — which has been quietly circulating a draft federal bill that would, critics say, let the industry write the rules it has to follow, pay the people who evaluate those rules, and wipe out the stronger state-level guardrails passed in the last twelve months. The bill is called the Artificial Intelligence Evaluation, Governance, and Incident Safety Act, or the AEGIS Act.

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