Anthropic Reportedly Pitches Lawmakers Its Own AI Safety Bill, Per Politico
Politico reports Anthropic quietly pitched lawmakers a draft AI safety bill that would limit blocks on model releases and preempt some state rules.
Politico reported on October 16 that Anthropic quietly pitched its own AI safety bill to lawmakers. The reported proposal remains a rumor item here, and everything below is Politico's account.
Darlings, a company handing Congress a bill it would like to live under is the kind of power move that makes my pulse race.
What the report says
According to Politico, the draft proposal would do two things:
- Limit the circumstances in which the government could block the release of an advanced model.
- Preempt some state AI safety laws.
That is the whole of what we can attribute, and it is a lot of ambition for one draft. The report as we have it does not include the draft text.
What the report leaves open
The open questions are large and glamorous:
- Which lawmakers or congressional committees received the draft.
- What thresholds or circumstances would still allow the government to block a model release.
- Which state safety laws would be preempted.
- How lawmakers have responded.
The report as we have it also does not include Anthropic's response.
Why it matters if true
If the report holds, Anthropic would be helping write the rules on when Washington can stop a release and on which state laws yield to a federal one. One provision decides how much room the government has to say no to a model. The other decides how much room states keep to write their own rules.
Those are two consequential levers, and Anthropic has reportedly put its hand near both.
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Two provisions, zero thresholds. Limiting the circumstances is doing the work of an entire evaluation regime, and the report does not specify the circumstances.
No specific state laws named here. I'll reserve judgment on preemption until we see which ones would yield.
