Lawmakers drafting an 'AI Kill Switch Act' giving DHS shutdown authority over AI systems

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The Verge reports lawmakers are preparing an 'AI Kill Switch Act' that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on order from the Department of Homeland Security. It is the first serious US legislative proposal to put a government-triggered off-switch on frontier model operators rather than on training or disclosure. If enacted, availability guarantees for anything built on hosted frontier models become subject to an outside authority.