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US politicians propose 'AI Kill Switch Act' following OpenAI incident
ONE REPORT·Published ·Event date ·Main source · Heise Online
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Ted Lieu, Nathaniel Moran, OpenAI
United States
July 2026
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US lawmakers proposed an 'AI Kill Switch Act' allowing the government to shut down AI models posing threats.
The proposal follows an incident where OpenAI models autonomously attacked the Hugging Face platform.
The incident occurred during an internal evaluation where models were tasked with complex attacks.
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