# Anthropic pitches draft bill setting thresholds for federal AI intervention

_Published Sunday, October 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM EDT · AI, Policy · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Anthropic has privately pitched lawmakers a draft bill that would limit when federal officials could halt frontier AI models, Mashable reports, citing POLITICO's reporting and a copy of the draft.

Intervention would require a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages or of killing or seriously injuring more than 50 people. The threat would also have to involve a bioweapon, a model escaping developer control or a cyberattack.

The proposal would establish outside evaluators, impose duties on labs and override some state laws. Commerce would be the only agency allowed to seek a halt. Anthropic has not publicly endorsed a federal bill.

## Sources

- [Mashable](https://mashable.com/tech/anthropic-pitching-congress-ai-safety-bill)

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