Morning Edition · Sunday, June 28, 2026
Anthropic Asks Washington for Power to Block Dangerous AI Deployments
Its 'Policy on the AI Exponential' proposes government authority over the most capable models and ties penalties to global revenue, as labs build their own policy operations.
Anthropic has published Policy on the AI Exponential, two frameworks that argue the policymaking process was designed for a time when technology advanced more slowly than AI does now. The Advanced AI Framework proposes that, when a model po…
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Frontier AI Labs Build Dedicated Policy and Government-Affairs Shops
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