Anthropic wants governments to have the power to block dangerous AI deployments

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Anthropic proposed giving governments legal authority to block dangerous AI models, with fines tied to global revenue. A second framework covers worker protections.

Anthropic has published two policy frameworks calling for governments to have the legal authority to block dangerous AI deployments and for economic safeguards to protect workers as AI reshapes the labour market. The Advanced AI Framework covers safety regulation. The Economic Policy Framework addresses displacement, capital distribution, and the social safety net.

The safety framework is the more aggressive of the two. Anthropic wants governments to be able to block or deter the deployment of models that pose a “significant risk of catastrophic harm,” with civil penalties tied to global annual revenue that escalate with repeated violations. It would apply only to models trained using more than 10²⁵ floating-point operations, developed by companies earning more than $500 million in AI revenue or spending more...

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