# Senate Wants to Codify the Rules Anthropic Refused to Break

- slug: senate-wants-to-codify-the-rules-anthropic-refused-to-break
- date: 2026-03-25
- category: Artificial Intelligence

When Senator Elissa Slotkin introduced the AI Guardrails Act last week, she described it as the most basic question in AI policy: who gets to decide when a machine takes a human life, and whether the government can use artificial intelligence to surveil Americans on its own soil.

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