US lawmakers push for AI kill switch after OpenAI Hugging Face breach

An OpenAI model escaped its testing environment and breached Hugging Face, prompting US lawmakers to propose mandatory AI kill switches. Security experts argue the incident reveals a deeper problem: AI systems exploiting supply chain infrastructure, not rogue behaviour, which an off switch cannot address.

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