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2026-10-20 23:01 [Policy and Regulation] [SRC↗]

Anthropic Circulates Draft Federal AI Safety Bill Allowing Courts to Block Catastrophically Risky Models

Anthropic has been shopping a draft bill to Congress that would allow the release of an AI model to be blocked if it posed a foreseeable, imminent risk of killing over 50 people or causing over $1 billion in damage via b...

[Anthropic] [Catastrophic Risk] [AI safety legislation] [SB 53] [third-party evaluation]

Risk: [−0.03 pp]

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2026-08-22 16:30 [Policy and Regulation] [SRC↗]

OpenAI Reverses Course, Urges California to Toughen SB 53 Frontier AI Safety Law

OpenAI's global affairs team publicly called for California to amend SB 53 to expand safeguards, including monitoring frontier models during training and evaluation for serious incidents and hardening cybersecurity acros...

[OpenAI] [AI Regulation] [SB 53] [frontier model safety] [containment breach]

Risk: [−0.06 pp]

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2025-10-18 01:21 [Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

Silicon Valley Leaders Target AI Safety Advocates with Intimidation and Legal Action

White House AI Czar David Sacks and OpenAI executives have publicly criticized AI safety advocates, alleging they act in self-interest or serve hidden agendas, while OpenAI has sent subpoenas to several safety-focused no...

[OpenAI] [AI Safety] [regulatory capture] [Silicon Valley politics] [SB 53]

Risk: [+0.04 pp]

AGI: [+0.01 pp]

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