# Anthropic's AI Bill Sets High Risk Threshold

> Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill requires government action only for risks causing over $1 billion in damage or 50+ deaths.
- Title: Anthropic's AI Bill Sets High Risk Threshold · Mother Jones
- Summary: Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill requires government action only for risks causing over $1 billion in damage or 50+ deaths. Anthropic's draft bill lets…
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- Source: Mother Jones — https://motherjones.com/politics/2026/10/anthropics-ai-safety-bill-has-an-alarming-threshold-for-government-action
- Author: Sophie Hurwitz
- Published: 2026-10-17T15:19:36+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: anthropic, ai safety bill, government action threshold, risk of $1 billion, risk of 50 deaths, capitol hill lobbying, ai regulation
## Anthropic's Capitol Hill Lobbying
Anthropic has ramped up lobbying efforts in the first half of 2026, spending more than it did in all of 2025.
## Bill's High Risk Threshold
The bill would let the government block an ai model only if it poses a foreseeable risk of more than $1 billion in damages or killing 50+ people.
## Limited Risk Categories
The bill defines intervention-worthy risks as only creating biological weapons, evading developer controls, or cyberattacks.
## State-Level Lobbying
Anthropic spent at least $90,000 in california to push pro-data-center policies and deployed lobbyists in tennessee and north carolina.
## Key takeaway

Anthropic's draft bill lets the government block AI models only if they pose a foreseeable risk of over $1 billion in damages or killing 50+ people.