Lawmakers Push AI Kill Switch Bill Following OpenAI Security Breach
Earlier this year, three leading LLMs, including OpenAI's GPT-5.2, took part in a test that showed all three had a willingness to start a nuclear war. One might have thought something like this would have made Congress take some sort of action. Fast forward to this week after OpenAI confirmed that its own models broke out of a locked-down testing environment and compromised servers belonging to Hugging Face, and a few members of Congress have finally proposed a bipartisan bill that would force the largest AI developers to keep a working off switch on their most capable systems.
Representative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Representative Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday. The measure amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and would require covered developers to maintain the technical ability to stop inference, terminate user access, suspend individual accounts or usage patterns...
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