Anthropic floats draft AI safety bill with high intervention thresholds

Anthropic drafted a federal AI safety bill, the AEGIS Act, letting the Commerce Department seek a court order to pause a model only when it threatens over 50 deaths or serious injuries, or more than $1 billion in damage. It has not been formally introduced and has no sponsors.

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