Oct 16 (Reuters) - Anthropic representatives have ⁠quietly pitched Capitol Hill lawmakers on a draft bill to regulate frontier ⁠AI safety and security, Politico reported on Friday, citing three people with ‌knowledge of the efforts.

The bill would let the government block a model's release or use only if it poses a foreseeable, imminent risk of more than $1 billion in damages, or of killing or seriously ​injuring more than 50 people, according to the report.

Here ⁠are some details:

• The risk must ⁠stem from the creation or release of a biological weapon, the model evading its ⁠developer’s ‌controls or a cyberattack, Politico reported

• An Anthropic spokesperson told Reuters the bill represents proposals outlined in Anthropic's "Advanced AI Framework" released earlier this year

• The ⁠bill would grant the government the "ability to block or ​deter dangerous deployments of ‌the most powerful models," and also requires developers to test frontier AI models, ⁠be transparent about ​findings, and get them independently evaluated, the spokesperson said

• The Department of Commerce did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment

• Under the bill, independent evaluators, which would ⁠register with the Commerce Department, would be tasked with ​periodically evaluating the lab and its frontier models, according to the report

• The labs could pay these evaluators, provided the payment is not tied to the evaluation's outcome, the ⁠report said

• If the evaluators determine there is “imminent enumerated risk” for a company’s frontier models, they must report it to Commerce within 72 hours of completing their assessment, Politico reported

• While the Commerce Department could request a judge to halt a model ​after determining risk, the language explicitly prohibits any other US ⁠government department, agency, or officer from suspending development, deployment, or internal use, according to ​the report

• A federal judge for the District Court ‌for the District of Columbia could order ​the suspension of a model, the report said

(Reporting by Jaspreet Singh and Akash Sriram in Bengaluru; Additional reporting by Ananya Palyekar, Editing by Anil D'Silva)