Anthropic Pitches a $1B AI Safety Bill to Lawmakers [2026]

Anthropic has proposed a draft AI safety bill to U.S. lawmakers allowing the Commerce Department to block release of frontier AI models only in cases of catastrophic risk, defined as causing over $1 billion in damages or over 50 serious injuries or deaths. The bill focuses on narrow, high-risk scenarios such as use in biological weapons, major cyberattacks, or circumvention of safety controls, excluding broader AI content regulation.

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