Anthony Cimino offered the closest thing to an official response we have seen on the leaked Anthropic draft bill I covered on Saturday.

His response indicates that Anthropic address specific concerns on the margin. But he does not understand, or at least does not acknowledge, what was centrally wrong with its draft bill and its decision to circulate that bill. The situation is quite bad.

Anthony Cimino: I lead our federal affairs team at @AnthropicAI and wanted to share a few thoughts on the draft federal AI safety bill text that's been circulating this weekend after a version was shared with the press.

First, some process. We’ve been advocating for the concepts in our Advanced AI Framework proposal for months. Understandably, federal policymakers wanted to know what this could look like in bill form. This draft is a translation of those ideas into legislative language, shared with a small number of congressional offices that have been working on these issues. It doesn’t include everything we would ultimately like to see passed into law.

In part because some ideas (like those shared in Dario's essay on pacing) are so new that we are still working on [...]

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Outline:

(02:06) Preemption

(04:05) Model Blocking

(06:19) Risk Thresholds

(07:40) Updates

(09:23) The Balance of Power is Shifting

(10:31) The Strongest Bill on the Table

(13:49) What Even Is Anthropic?

(25:14) The Ask

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First published:
October 20th, 2026

Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qxAroimgs4BvBHz2i/anthropic-does-not-understand-why-its-draft-bill-was

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“Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling” by Zvi

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“Anthropic Does Not Understand Why Its Draft Bill Was Unacceptable and Troubling” by Zvi