Lawmakers Push AI Kill Switch Bill Following OpenAI Security Breach

Lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act following OpenAI's breach, requiring developers of frontier AI systems (trained on $100m+ compute, $500m+ annual revenue) to maintain technical ability to shut down inference, terminate access, or disable systems entirely. The bill grants Homeland Security emergency authority to order shutdowns with $20m/day penalties for non-compliance, though the OpenAI incident that triggered it would fall outside the law's coverage since it occurred during structured testing.

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