Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
US AI Kill Switch Act lets DHS order AI shutdowns ($20M/day penalties) in response to GPT 5.6 Sol and Anthropic model incidents. Mandates kill switches and cedes AI infrastructure control to government—creates precedent shifting governance risk to developers.
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Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.
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A proposed law called the AI Kill Switch Act would let US government officials order the shutdown of AI systems “that can cause catastrophic harm,” the bill’s sponsors said today.
US lawmakers propose legislation granting homeland security power to halt dangerous AI models. This bill, called the "AI Kill…
WASHINGTON, July 23 : U.S. homeland security officials would have the power to order AI firms to shut down models that put human…
A bipartisan House bill slated to be introduced Thursday would authorize the US government to shut down or throttle risky AI…
The new bill would authorize the government to shut down or restrict risky artificial intelligence models following the…
It looks like there is no stopping AI's advancement, but US lawmakers are thinking ahead and have drafted an "AI kill switch"…
The legislation, called the ‘AI Kill Switch Act,’ would empower the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to intervene in what the…
