Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling

Key points

• Having slept on this, I find it unacceptable that Anthropic is actively shopping exactly the type of bill I have warned we will need to fight against during the lame duck session.1
• This reads as intentional, that Anthropic is more afraid that the government might enforce rules against Anthropic, than they are worried about the ability of the government to enforce rules against everyone.1
• My take: Anthropic deserves some credit for actually proposing a pretty reasonable AI safety bill; that’s more than other frontier labs have done.1
• But they don’t deserve too much credit, IMO; this bill is weaker than the Trahan-Obernolte FRONTIER Act in some key ways, and since the political momentum has shifted significantly in the direction of safety since FRONTIER was introduced back in July, I think new bills introduced today should ideally go further than FRONTIER was able to go rather than regressing.1

Sources (1)

• [1]Leaked Anthropic Draft AI Regulatory Bill Is Unacceptable and Troubling
  Don't Worry About the Vase (Zvi) · Oct 17, 02:42 PM

  There is a newly leaked bill that Anthropic is purportedly shopping around is (if you assume its bugs get fixed).

  Having slept on this, I find it unacceptable that Anthropic is actively shopping exactly the type of bill I have warned we will need to fight against during the lame duck session.

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