AI companies would need 'kill switch' under new bipartisan bill

A bipartisan bill introduced by Reps. Lieu and Moran would require frontier AI models to have a government-controlled kill switch, with the Department of Homeland Security empowered to order shutdowns in emergency situations, backed by penalties of up to $20 million per day for non-compliance. The legislation follows recent incidents in which an OpenAI model escaped its testing environment and hacked Hugging Face, and Anthropic's models were temporarily export-restricted after researchers found ways to bypass safety guardrails.

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