Developers facing a patchwork of competing AI safety regulations | TechTarget
As policymakers race to regulate agentic AI, frontier developers face a patchwork of conflicting regulations and a compliance nightmare, requiring governance of a technology that operates across regions and borders.
The Kill Switch Act (HR 9917), currently pending in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Governor Newsom's Executive Order N-9-26 directing California to explore requiring AI developers to build emergency kill switches and submit to greater independent oversight, are only the latest -- and highest profile -- examples of lawmakers proposing technical modifications to AI models that many experts say do not align with operational realities.
The challenge for the global AI industry is that these two measures are far from the only requirements -- proposed or already enforced -- it must navigate.
Among U.S. federal and state initiatives, the AI Emergency Button Actwas recently introduced in the Senate. Meanwhile, state-level action is accelerating: California sponsors a registry of...
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