Senate AI Guardrails Act: Schiff and Slotkin Bill Would Codify Anthropic's Red Lines on Autonomous Weapons and Mass Surveillance

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Sen. Elissa Slotkin are drafting the AI Guardrails Act to codify into law the ethical limits Anthropic defended against the Pentagon: prohibiting AI from autonomously deciding to kill targets, using AI for domestic mass surveillance, and AI in nuclear weapons launch decisions. The bill follows Defense Secretary Hegseth's designation of Anthropic as a 'Supply-Chain Risk' after it refused to remove safeguards. Sen. Warren has also opened an investigation into the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist as 'apparent retaliation.'