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# Jay Shooster: Anthropic's bill 'does not remotely represent the position of the AI safety community'

Jay Shooster (@JayShooster), X, 2026-10-16.
Source: https://x.com/JayShooster/status/2111238360480034992

## Why it matters

Most-viewed safety-side reaction (~20k views) to Politico's report on Anthropic's draft federal AI safety bill.

## Summary

Posted Fri Oct 16 23:30:24 +0000 2026 by Jay Shooster (@JayShooster); 19,835 views, 167 likes, 9 reposts when read via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-17. Quote of Politico's 'Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers': 'This bill is outrageous and unacceptable and does not remotely represent the position of the AI safety community.'

## Archived text

> This bill is outrageous and unacceptable and does not remotely represent the position of the AI safety community.
> 
> > Quoting @politico: Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers https://politi.co/4zxDFhl

Archived 2026-10-17 via fxtwitter (unofficial).
Counts: 19,958 views, 167 likes, 9 reposts, 9 replies (at fetch time)

## Cited in

- 2026-10-16: [Politico: Anthropic quietly pitches lawmakers its own frontier AI safety bill, letting a D.C. judge halt a model only for imminent catastrophic risk](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-16-anthropic-draft-frontier-ai-safety-bill/)