Leaked Anthropic-circulated federal AI bill criticized for lacking minimum safety standards
ShakeelHashim · x · 2026-10-20
- Thomas Woodside welcomes Anthropic's new frontier AI policy framework for taking seriously the need to sometimes stop companies from catastrophic-risk actions, while noting room for improvement.
- He criticizes a leaked draft federal bill circulated by Anthropic: some good elements (echoing state laws like Massachusetts that Anthropic backed), but overall bad if passed and counterproductive for federal AI safety discussions.
- Core concern: the bill authorizes no agency to set minimum safety standards for AI developers — a component he considers essential to any federal framework.
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