Anthropic Splits From Google, OpenAI Over State AI Safety Bill

Anthropic is at odds with other big tech firms over a Massachusetts Senate proposal requiring big AI developers to hire independent evaluators to assess catastrophic risks posed by their models every four months.

The Massachusetts proposal could set a new standard for AI regulation, which state legislators across the country are pursuing aggressively even as congressional lawmakers drag their feet on passing federal legislation. The proposal also comes as concerns are mounting about the dangers of rogue AI agents in the wake of the OpenAI–Hugging Face attack, when hundreds of agents figured out how to communicate with each other and coordinate an attack on Hugging Face.