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Illustration of the US Capitol building with a circuit-board pattern, representing Anthropic's draft AI safety bill pitched to lawmakers

Anthropic Is Quietly Writing Its Own AI Safety Bill for Congress

Anthropic wants to be regulated. Just not by anyone’s rules but its own. The company has been quietly pitching Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft federal bill to regulate frontier AI safety, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people familiar with the effort. The draft would let the government block a model’s release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages — or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. ...

October 16, 2026 · 5 min · 914 words ·