Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is arguing governments should have the power to block dangerous deployments of artificial intelligence if they don’t meet a certain safety standard. Amodei’s latest assertion, published in an essay on his website Wednesday, builds upon the company’s pro-safety approach to AI, which has put them at odds with its competitors and the Trump…

Major artificial intelligence labs are done waiting on Washington to pass a national standard for AI, turning to state bills to carve out their own policy lines while Congress tries to catch up.  Most AI labs support a national safety framework for AI that would eliminate the patchwork of state regulations, but they are also…