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Anthropic to Revise Leaked AI Safety Bill After Backlash
Anthropic will revise its AI safety bill after criticism over model-blocking rules, state law conflicts, and evaluator standards.

Anthropic confirmed it will revise a proposed AI safety bill following criticism centered on model-blocking provisions, the treatment of state law, and evaluator standards. The company’s decision comes after stakeholders raised objections to specific mechanisms in the draft legislation.
Policy teams should prepare for rapid negotiation over the authority to set risk thresholds and the process for verifying frontier-model risk. The revisions are expected to address the contested provisions directly, though the exact scope of changes has not been detailed.