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A new AI Kill Switch Act would let the U.S. government order AI systems shut down after dangerous incidents, following an OpenAI security breach
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American lawmakers introduced a bill called the AI Kill Switch Act last week. If passed, it would give the federal government legal authority to force AI companies to shut down a model that's gone haywire, and require those companies to build in the technical means to do it.
