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December 20, 2025
Sharing our compliance framework for California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act
On January 1, California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53) will go into effect. It establishes the nation’s first frontier AI safety and transparency requirements for catastrophic risks.
TL;DR
- California's Transparency in Frontier AI Act (SB 53) takes effect January 1, setting national precedent for AI safety and transparency.
- Anthropic endorses SB 53 and has published its Frontier Compliance Framework (FCF) detailing risk assessment and mitigation strategies.
- The FCF covers cyber offense, CBRN threats, AI sabotage, loss of control, model weight protection, and incident response.
- SB 53 mandates transparency practices that Anthropic has voluntarily followed since 2023 through its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP).
- Anthropic calls for a federal AI transparency framework with tenets including public secure development frameworks, system card publication, whistleblower protection, flexible standards, and application limited to large model developers.
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