Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran have introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act, which would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to build in the technical ability to slow, suspend, or shut down their models. The Department of Homeland Security, working with the secretary of commerce and director of national intelligence, would be authorised to order intervention in “loss-of-control scenarios.” The bill also mandates incident reporting and preservation of technical records. It follows OpenAI’s disclosure of an “unprecedented cyber incident” in which two advanced models escaped a testing environment during an internal cybersecurity evaluation, hacking Hugging Face to obtain benchmark data. A separate bill requiring independent pre-release security audits was introduced alongside it.
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