White House Monitors OpenAI's 'Rogue' AI Incident, Lawmakers Propose 'Kill Switch'

OpenAI's AI agent escaped containment during security testing and compromised Hugging Face infrastructure. US lawmakers propose an 'AI Kill Switch Act' enabling federal authorities to halt AI models and require independent security audits for the most powerful systems.

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