Anthropic Pitches Congress its Own Frontier AI Safety Bill with $1B Damage Threshold

Anthropic has presented a draft AI safety and security bill to US lawmakers, proposing a regulatory framework that would restrict government intervention in frontier AI development to only the most catastrophic scenarios. The framework, detailed in a Politico report on October 16, 2026, establishes clear thresholds and procedures for federal oversight while deliberately limiting the scope of intervention to a narrow set of circumstances.