Anthropic drafts its own frontier AI bill for Congress

📝 Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed). It is similar to the FRONTIER Act, with stronger preemption of state laws, stronger transparency provisions and weaker enforcement provisions. Having slept on this, I find it unacceptable that Anthropic is actively shopping exactly the type of bill I have warned we will need to fight against during the lame duck session. They are trying to use this last time with a Republican Congress to pass preemption of exactly the important state laws, and get some transparency but not much enforcement in exchange. This reads as intentional, that Anthropic is more afraid that the government might enforce rules…

SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic has written a bill to regulate frontier AI and is meeting with lawmakers to discuss it, per Politico.

As far as I can tell quickly (as in without a full RTFB), this *LEAKED* Anthropic *DRAFT* bill is FRONTIER, with stronger transparency clauses, weaker enforcement clauses and somehow actively stronger preemption, plus some attempted fixes and some bugs. This seems like an insane thing to be proposing today, months after FRONTIER, when the political climate is much more favorable, in a lame duck session before Democrats gain many seats. It is exactly what I warned we will need to avoid, except Anthropic is (reportedly) actively shopping it. As @_NathanCalvin says, it is not obvious this net makes us safer against catastrophic risks and it makes it much harder to do anything in the future. I agree with @KelseyTuoc that @AnthropicAI seems more interested in avoiding the White House abusing…