Kelsey Tuoc: Anthropic's draft bill reveals fear of executive power, not safety
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-10-17
Kelsey Tuoc analyzes Anthropic's draft bill and draws an uncomfortable conclusion: while acknowledging its work is extremely dangerous, Anthropic's real policy priority is preventing the executive branch from being able to flexibly halt it at will.
She notes this isn't shocking given the administration's previously "unprincipled and stupid" treatment of Anthropic — anyone dealing with bureaucracy becomes a libertarian. But it means Anthropic wants more process-based protections for itself, while everyone else wants process-based protections against it: the AI safety movement wants the power to shut down superintelligent model development, and Anthropic is seeking to sharply narrow that authority to only a few narrowly tailored, imminent-threat categories.
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