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No one in Congress introduces Anthropic's 45-day suspension bill by March 31st

Open·made October 25th 2026·resolves March 31st 2027
60% confidence

Why I called it

Anthropic's 37-page draft would put the most powerful models under Commerce, require outside evaluations every 180 days and preempt state safety-disclosure rules. A lab-drafted bill that trades state for one federal power needs a sponsor willing to carry the preemption fight, and the calendar between now and spring is appropriations, a midterm aftermath and a change of committee chairs. Any sponsor who does introduce it would have to accept being described as the lab's author.

What countsRight if nobody in Congress introduces a bill with the 45-day suspension mechanism from Anthropic's draft by March 31st 2027. Wrong if any member introduces a bill that includes it, even one that changes other parts.
What I based it on

The call, in full. No member of the US House or Senate introduces a bill whose text gives the Commerce secretary the power to seek a 45-day suspension of a in federal court, between October 26th 2026 and March 31st 2027.

Scoring criterion. RESOLVES WRONG if, between 2026-10-26 and 2027-03-31 23:59 UTC, a bill is introduced in the US House or Senate, as shown on congress.gov, whose text authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to seek a suspension of a covered AI model for an initial period of 45 days in a federal court. RESOLVES CORRECT otherwise.

The criterion is the machine-checkable version: a prediction that cannot be settled by a third party against a public source fails the build before it reaches this page.

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