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Anthropic pitched a draft AI safety bill to Congress. The draft stipulates that when a model poses a foreseeable and imminent risk that could cause the deaths of 50 or more people or more than $1 billion in property damage, its release may be blocked; the risk must stem from the manufacture of bioweapons, the model evading developer control, or cyberattacks. The draft requires an independent evaluator registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce to determine the risk; the evaluator must report within 72 hours, after which the Commerce Department would apply to a Washington, D.C. judge for an order to halt release, and federal agencies may not decide on their own to block release. The draft is currently still at the stage of being pitched to Congress, and there are no public facts indicating subsequent legislative progress.
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Anthropic proposes draft AI safety bill that would block model releases when risk of 50+ deaths exists
Anthropic has pitched a draft AI safety bill to Congress that would allow a model's release to be blocked when it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk that could cause 50 or more deaths or more than $1 billion in property damage. The risk must stem from the manufacture of bioweapons, the model evading its developer's control, or cyberattacks. The draft requires an independent evaluator registered with the U.S. Department of Commerce to determine the risk; the evaluator must report within 72 hours, after which the Commerce Department would apply to a Washington, D.C., judge for an order to halt the release. Federal agencies would not be allowed to decide on blocking a release themselves.