Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill; ex-safety lead calls it a step back
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-17
Politico reports Anthropic is quietly pitching its own AI safety bill to lawmakers. Nat Purser, formerly Anthropic's head of safety systems, argues it's a big step back from the FRONTIER Act: with AI capabilities advancing fast, cementing a weaker federal ceiling now makes no sense. His suggested fixes: stronger mechanisms to compel corrective action on auditor-identified issues, true auditor independence (not paid or selected by the labs they audit), and government power to set and iterate minimum standards as capabilities grow. If state safety laws are preempted, he says, an evolving federal regime is the least that's needed.
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