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Anthropic pitches federal AI safety bill to lawmakers
Anthropic asks Congress to pass a national AI safety law that would replace state rules with one federal framework, including binding safety duties for developers.
Anthropic is urging federal lawmakers to adopt a national AI safety bill that would create a single regulatory framework. The company’s pitch centers on a federal structure that could pre-empt a growing patchwork of state-level rules, while still imposing binding safety obligations on developers.
Under the proposed approach, companies should prepare for new federal reporting and testing mandates. Anthropic’s message to the industry is that federal pre-emption would not necessarily eliminate state scrutiny, meaning firms would still need to account for potential state-level enforcement alongside any national requirements.