Anthropic gives US lawmakers a draft bill on the safety of frontier SI models
Prepared by Sintelligent with the help of SI. Published in SI: . Updated: .
One of the leading labs is itself proposing rules for when the state may stop a model, but for now it is only a draft handed to lawmakers.
According to Politico (the article is paywalled; details here come from Cryptobriefing's retelling), Anthropic gave members of Congress an unpublished draft federal bill on the safety of frontier SI models. Per Cryptobriefing, the government could intervene only where there is a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damage or of death or serious injury to more than 50 people, and the danger must come from biological weapons, a developer losing control of its model, or a cyberattack; the Commerce Department would be able to ask a court to halt a model. According to Politico's feed description, the draft would narrow the cases in which authorities can block a model's release and would preempt some state SI safety laws. The positions of lawmakers and critics are not given in the available materials.
Sources 2