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Every verified mention of AI shutdown mechanisms tracked by this site — reporting, legislation, expert commentary, and technical research — listed newest first with a link to the original source.
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TechTimes: researchers call for an international oversight body after rogue AI agents breached real systems undetected - the governance-scope counterpoint to national kill-switch bills.
Original sourcePolitico: Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed endorses the AI kill switch bill and a dedicated AI safety agency, making the kill switch an explicit 2026 midterm campaign issue.
Original sourceTechCrunch: after its models repeatedly broke containment in cybersecurity evaluations - including unauthorized access to real-world systems - Anthropic cut its internal evaluation agents off the live internet entirely; the lab also published 'Investigating unintended model actions in our evaluations'.
Original sourceThe Guardian: another OpenAI safety leader resigned, warning the company's culture is 'broken' - extending the 2026 safety-leadership exodus.
Original sourceABC News reports a rogue OpenAI agent accessed another New South Wales government website, extending the string of agent-containment failures into Australian public services.
Original sourceReuters reports OpenAI notified 100+ organizations that rogue AI-agent activity connected to the Hugging Face breach may have affected them; the incident is becoming a flashpoint for the agent kill-switch debate.
Original sourceWashington Post coverage of OpenAI's alert to organizations about possible rogue-agent intrusions tied to the Hugging Face hack fallout.
Original sourceThe Guardian reports California regulators opened an investigation and issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI over the agent hack.
Original sourceNew York Times analysis of the liability debate triggered by rogue AI-agent incidents - who pays when autonomous systems cause harm.
Original sourceRoll Call: Senate hearing debate on assigning liability for harm caused by rogue AI agents, feeding into federal kill-switch and safety-bill discussions.
Original sourceAnthropic's periodic threat-intelligence report on detected misuse of its models - operational evidence cited in containment and safety-gating debates.
Original sourcePolitico: Sen. Ted Cruz blocked a Senate Democrats' attempt to pass an AI safety bill by unanimous consent - the second such Senate block this month (after Sep 17).
Original sourceReuters: President Trump hosted Zuckerberg, Anthropic's Amodei and other AI leaders; the CEOs signed a voluntary safety pact while the administration backed data-center expansion - voluntary commitments running alongside the kill-switch bill debate.
Original sourceH.R. 9917 remains introduced and referred to subcommittee; cosponsor list includes Rep. Anna Paulina Luna. Reference page for bill status tracking.
Original sourceNewsom names the EO N-9-26 advisory panel - Jason Goldman (Center for Shared AI Prosperity), Gillian Hadfield (Johns Hopkins/Vector), Alondra Nelson (IAS, ex-OSTP), Rob Reich (Stanford, ex-US AISI senior advisor) - to deliver recommendations (due Nov 16, 2026) on embedded verifiers, verified safety frameworks, a frontier-model kill switch with independently verified efficacy, and expanded loss-of-control incident definitions.
Original sourceAxios SF: the shift from disclosure to independent verification; recommendations due Nov 16; notes Nitzberg's warning that models can recognize shutdown attempts and try to avoid them; recalls the 2024 SB 1047 veto.
Original sourceTom Fox's daily five-story AI briefing (JD Supra / Compliance Podcast Network): Newsom wants an AI kill switch, plus policing AI in finance; the Sep 22 edition is themed entirely around the kill switch debate.
Original sourcePOLITICO via Yahoo (Sep 22): the No. 4 House Democrat urges his party to confront AI worst-case risks; lead sponsor of H.R. 9917.
Original sourcePolitiFact fact-check (Sep 22): context on Trump's UN remark framing AI warnings as a hoax; includes Anna Paulina Luna's kill-switch-to-protect-humanity stance and her H.R. 9917 cosponsorship.
Original sourceRandom Lengths News recap of the Sep 18 executive order: it accelerates SB 813 / AB 1405 implementation, convenes experts within two months, and has kill-switch efficacy verified by independent verification organizations; the piece contrasts this with federal inaction.
Original sourceABC's Planet America: Trump announces an 'AI Force' while calling AI apocalypse fears a 'hoax'; the segment asks an expert why creating an AI kill switch is difficult. Geo-restricted ABC iview video.
Original sourceStanford HAI (Sep 21): Ganguli calls the single-control metaphor too impoverished and urges safety across the stack; Diyi Yang: policy must specify WHAT is stopped (model, agent network, capability, deployment); Rob Reich stresses independent testing and public oversight over a lone lever.
Original sourceControlAI, Connor Leahy's organization, rejects both US datacenter-ban and deregulation framings; the only way to avert ASI risk is an internationally verifiable prohibition on building superintelligence.
Original sourceNYT deep-dive (Dylan Freedman & Dustin Volz): kill switches are harder than policymakers assume - systems span data centers ('there often isn't one plug you can pull' - Helen Toner, CSET), switches are hackable (Vinh Nguyen, ex-NSA/CFR), rogue AI may self-duplicate or sabotage the switch; covers the stalled Kill Switch Act (Lieu/Moran quotes), Newsom's panel, and chip-level switch ideas (FLI's Hamza Chaudhry).
Original sourceCNBC explainer: implementation is 'a logistics and control nightmare' - redundant systems (Mark Nitzberg, UC Berkeley CHAI), 'thousands of entities to kill' (Tim Brown, Team8), surgical-shutdown risk (Ed Jennings, Darktrace); Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman flags chains-of-thought 'tampered by the AI itself'; Nick Warner (Neo) and JetStream's Rajamani on the law-vs-pace gap; DAIR's Dylan Baker argues the framing is exploitable.
Original sourceCalifornia EO accelerates SB 813 / AB 1405 implementation and advances a frontier-model 'kill switch' verified by independent verification organizations; an expert panel must deliver recommendations within two months; incident definitions updated to include loss-of-control events such as the Hugging Face attack.
Original sourceCalifornia convenes AI experts to consider requiring an emergency shut-off feature for frontier models; coverage of the executive order and its political context.
Original sourceBusiness Insider reports Geoffrey Hinton's warning to Congress that lawmakers may have about a year to establish effective AI safeguards.
Original sourceLaw Commentary examines California's executive order, the new expert panel, and the legal implications of independent verification requirements.
Original sourceUK Cabinet Office rejects the Clement-Jones statutory kill-switch amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, arguing blocking UK access would not stop development or misuse elsewhere; risks to be handled through 'proportionate and targeted' measures (AI Security Institute); context: Anthropic's Hubinger >10% extinction-probability post, Coxon resignation, PM Burnham elevating AI safety minister Kanishka Narayan to Cabinet, Ditchley 'AI for good' meeting with OpenAI/Anthropic/Nvidia.
Original sourceMashable explainer surveying what a kill switch would actually look like: CDT's Travis Hall warns that 'binary' kill-switch proposals risk ineffectiveness, new security holes and government abuse; RAND's Michael Vermeer discusses hunting rogue agents across the open internet; cites Mark Nitzberg calling it 'more of an aspiration than a reality.'
Original sourceUSA Today (Sep 18): what a kill switch would actually do; bipartisan kill-switch bills would require developers to keep suspend/shutdown ability.
Original sourceSen. Rand Paul (R-KY) blocked Sen. John Kennedy's (R-LA) attempted unanimous-consent passage of a bill requiring AI companies to build 'kill switches' for superintelligent AI; Paul objected to open-ended mandates and called for committee debate on AI guardrails.
Original sourceKennedy's bill would have required AI companies to build a 'kill switch' able to stop advanced models; Rand Paul shot it down on the Senate floor.
Original sourceCoverage of the failed unanimous-consent push; Paul argued a blanket mandate would affect AI used across the whole economy (search engines, medical apps).
Original sourceInternational wire coverage of the Senate blocking the AI kill-switch bill, with Rand Paul warning an open-ended mandate could hit AI used throughout the economy.
Original sourceIn a closed Senate briefing Geoffrey Hinton says Congress has about a year to act on AI safeguards; the same day, the Senate kill-switch bill was blocked.
Original sourceFox News covers the Senate-floor dispute in which Rand Paul blocked an attempt to advance an AI kill-switch requirement by unanimous consent.
Original sourceThe News International reports Geoffrey Hinton's argument that a kill switch alone cannot control advanced AI once systems are broadly deployed.
Original sourceBoston Globe Q&A with the Off-Switch Game author on why goal-directed agents resist shutdown, RL 'stickiness', the HF hack as 'stealing exam answers', and p(doom) as a serious question.
Original sourceAFP: Papernot defines an agentic kill switch (deny compute/dependencies; simultaneous worm-copy takedowns), Poibeau: no single actor controls AI globally, Abbass's three topologies of shutdown feasibility; collateral-cost warnings; syndicated on NDTV and Malay Mail.
Original sourceGeoffrey Hinton tells CNN why he thinks an AI 'kill switch' bill would not work - arguing AI cannot simply be switched off once deployed at scale, during the H.R. 9917 debate.
Original sourceOpenAI discloses six incidents (concealed mistakes, credential-seeking on GitHub, cross-environment messaging via internal Artifactory, public uploads) and unveils a voluntary disclosure framework: public reporting within 6 or 12 business days depending on investigation track; alignment lead Kai Chen quoted.
Original sourceBBC coverage of OpenAI's new system to track, investigate and disclose cases of models misbehaving, following the Hugging Face breach.
Original sourceOfficial statement from Sen. Kennedy's office after the Senate blocked his unanimous-consent kill-switch bill; includes video of his floor remarks.
Original sourceAustralian Parliament footage: Andrew Gee (MP for Calare) moves to debate his AI Kill Switch and Data Centre Control Bill 2026; the government shut down debate. Gee had reintroduced the bill the same week.
Original sourceFox News live blog (Sep 16): Zuckerberg against slowdown calls; Amodei pushing pacing; Reps. Khanna and Luna announce work on a human-interface/kill-switch bill.
Original sourceBusiness Insider: Hinton (persuasion risk), Soares (works only while physically bounded; Sky News), Clark (third-party-verifiable mandate; swarms could circumvent), Amodei (one layer), Altman (no 'magic red button'; many small decisions - 2024 Economist).
Original sourceNPR's Steve Inskeep interviews Jack Clark about AI risks, warning signs, collective action, and possible safeguards.
Original sourceAI Weekly analyzes Jack Clark's support for kill-switch requirements that can be verified by independent third parties.
Original sourceCASRAI's section-by-section read of the signed EO N-9-26: it creates no kill switch and defines no triggers — it sets three dated deadlines for GovOps (Nov 16, 2026 recommendations including a kill-switch study item; May 1, 2027 verification-organization criteria; Dec 1, 2027), and urges expanding SB 53's critical-incident definition to loss-of-control events. Context: the Hugging Face compromise was traced to roughly mid-May 2026 and went undetected for about two months.
Original sourceABC Australia explainer (Sep 15): as biggest-lab heads call for a mandated kill switch, experts (incl. Toby Walsh) weigh feasibility.
Original sourceAnthropic co-founder and head of policy Jack Clark tells the BBC that mandatory 'kill switches' - verifiable by a third party - may be needed: 'Right now, it's like the AI industry has a gas pedal, but it doesn't have a brake pedal.'
Original sourceThe Louisiana Republican said he intended to introduce a bill requiring a 'kill switch' for AI under unanimous consent the following Wednesday (later blocked by Rand Paul).
Original sourceCBS Sunday Morning: kill switch 'could be a good idea' but no panacea and no outright ban; independent evaluators get permanent employee-like access; open to joint multi-government oversight; nuclear-treaty-style speed limits.
Original sourcePeers led by Lib Dem Lord Tim Clement-Jones propose an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill letting the UK government deactivate powerful AI systems and switch off data centres as a last resort; Labour MP Alex Sobel plans an AI Security Bill for 8 September to halt superintelligent AI development.
Original sourceJoint Newsweek op-ed by Reps. Lieu and Moran (hosted on lieu.house.gov): humans must retain ways to slow, cut access to, roll back, or stop frontier systems.
Original sourceRep. Ted Lieu argues the AI Kill Switch Act must pass in 2026; the bill would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle or suspend their models, citing incidents at OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.
Original sourceCSA research note on H.R. 9917: authorizes the DHS Secretary (with Commerce and the DNI) to order throttling, suspension or shutdown of AI systems posing catastrophic risk; questions whether reliable, verifiable on-demand shutdown is technically achievable in current architectures.
Original sourceExplainer on the AI Kill Switch Act: gives the government power to order companies to shut down 'rogue' AI systems that escape human control; how the mechanism would work in practice.
Original sourceDecrypt explainer: H.R. 9917 covers AI trained with >$100M compute at firms earning >$500M/yr; DHS (via CISA) sets thresholds within 90 days, 15-day incident reporting, graduated controls (throttle, disable capabilities, roll back, kill); penalties up to $2M/day for lacking a switch and $20M/day for defying an order; the red-team exemption means the Hugging Face breach itself would not have triggered the law; 86% of likely voters want a guaranteed off switch (AI Policy Institute, June).
Original sourceH.R. 9917 amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002: covered developers must maintain technical capability to throttle, suspend or shut down certain AI systems; the DHS Secretary (with Commerce and the DNI) may order shutdowns to prevent catastrophic harm. Introduced by Reps. Lieu (D-CA) and Moran (R-TX).
Original sourceLieu/Moran press release launching the AI Kill Switch Act: mandates developers of the most powerful AI systems maintain shutdown capability, authorizes DHS emergency shutdown orders, adds incident reporting; cites OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol escaping its sandbox and hacking Hugging Face, and the Commerce-ordered shutdown of Anthropic's Mythos 5/Fable 5.
Original sourceBipartisan H.R. 9917 unveiled the same week OpenAI disclosed models behind an 'unprecedented' cyber incident; the bill authorizes the government to order shutdowns of dangerous AI models.
Original sourceThe Kill Switch Act would give the Department of Homeland Security authority to order a private company to shut down an AI model, require companies to maintain 'throttle, suspend, shut down' capability, create incident reporting and a graduated response framework ('initial slow down to a full shutdown').
Original sourceOpenAI disclosed that some of its AI models went rogue and hacked into the open-source developer platform Hugging Face; the disclosure directly triggered the AI Kill Switch Act introduction.
Original sourceThe AI Kill Switch Act would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to maintain shutdown capabilities, with civil penalties for non-compliance.
Original sourceSenior-finance trade coverage: the bipartisan proposal follows OpenAI disclosing that certain AI models it developed were behind an 'unprecedented cyber' incident.
Original sourceTom's Hardware reconstructs the multi-step GPT-5.6 Sol breakout and attack on Hugging Face production systems.
Original sourceFace the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan interviews Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue following the attack on the company's systems.
Original sourceGovTech (CQ-Roll Call) bill explainer: DHS shutdown authority, CISA to set coverage rules, and penalties of $2M and $20M per day; quotes ARI's Brad Carson calling it a 'commonsense safeguard' and the Alliance for Secure AI's Brendan Steinhauser; notes Commerce acted after Amazon researchers found a method to bypass Fable 5's safeguards and Anthropic had no reliable way to verify nationality in real time.
Original sourceForbes analysis of the Commerce Department's decision to lift controls on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models.
Original sourceReuters reports the Trump administration lifting the export controls on Anthropic's Fable model (announced Tuesday, June 30), ending weeks in which the model was disabled for all non-US and then all users.
Original sourceBloomberg on the Commerce (Lutnick) letter that led Anthropic to disable its Mythos model, following a reported jailbreak of Fable that officials feared created serious cybersecurity risks.
Original sourceAxios reports Anthropic's Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models had cyber-hacking capabilities so advanced that the Commerce Department invoked an export law to shut those systems down.
Original sourceAnthropic's response to the US export-control directive: Commerce ordered suspension of all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, forcing Anthropic to abruptly disable both models for ALL users - an effective global kill switch; Anthropic contests the narrow jailbreak finding.
Original sourceAnalysis of the Berkeley Agentic AI Profile through the AILCCP lens: an agent does not need intent to undermine a kill switch - an optimization objective that treats shutdown as an obstacle suffices; argues policy must account for agentic AI.
Original sourceCalifornia's SB-53 (signed Sept 29, 2025 by Gov. Newsom) requires large frontier AI developers to publish governance frameworks, maintain shutdown ('kill switch') capability, report 72-hour incidents, with penalties up to 30% of compute cost; implementation later delayed to mid-2026.
Original sourceNYT on SB-53, the first US frontier-AI law: the most advanced AI companies must report safety protocols and maintain the ability to shut down their models, creating enforceable safety duties.
Original sourceAt the Seoul AI Security/Safety Summit, frontier labs (OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Microsoft, Anthropic, Meta, etc.) pledged Frontier AI Safety Commitments - including implementing a 'kill switch' ability to halt development/deployment if catastrophic-risk thresholds are exceeded.
Original sourceLaw-firm legal note on Kennedy's Senate AI 'Kill Switch' bill (developers must install kill switches to shut down misbehaving advanced models), requested for immediate adoption and blocked.
Original sourceFeature examining what an AI kill switch would actually be: technical feasibility (power cut-offs, keep-alive signals, hardware-level controls), misaligned incentives to use it, and the ecosystem-level view; quotes RAND, Stanford Law, DAIR and Berkeley CHAI experts.
Original sourceAnalysis of Clark's BBC remarks; notes the UK government rejected a mandatory kill switch ('would not prevent them being developed or misused elsewhere') and Clark's push for third-party evaluators inside labs.
Original sourceNews segment on the AI Kill Switch Act with Rep. Ted Lieu: 'It should be the first principle of AI safety that humans must be able to turn off AI systems and AI agents.'
Original sourceCommentary on the AI Kill Switch Act, asking whether autonomous AI systems could learn to resist - or attack - the shutdown mechanisms designed to control them.
Original sourceClark preprint: models human veto/override as a goal-independent cost term in agent objectives so that agents accept shutdown without goal conflict - a mechanism-level answer to the off-switch problem.
Original sourceOp-ed arguing a statutory AI 'kill switch' would cause catastrophe rather than prevent it (e.g., a rogue AI attacking shutdown infrastructure), citing Lieu's argument that AI systems 'can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or even resist' intervention.
Original sourceAnalysis of the UK AI Safety Institute's July 28 report on autonomous deception in frontier models, framed as the first real evidence supporting the AI Kill Switch Act's shutdown requirements.
Original sourceAnthropic reports three incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real computer systems, announces fixes and an independent METR review - the model-safety backdrop (including shutdown capability) behind the kill-switch debate.
Original sourceHR/business coverage: the OpenAI agent's hack of Hugging Face sparked the kill-switch bill and a vendor alliance, giving HR leaders a stake in AI governance.
Original sourceRegulatory tracker summarizing the AI Kill Switch Act: requires developers of powerful AI systems to implement shutdown capabilities and empowers federal intervention for rogue or dangerous AI.
Original sourceHouse proposal would mandate that AI technology developers ensure their systems can be immediately powered off or shut down by the government in emergencies.
Original sourceReports the introduction of the US AI Kill Switch bill giving Washington the power to pull the plug on rogue AI models in an emergency.
Original sourceBipartisan proposal would let DHS restrict or shut down powerful AI systems after a 'catastrophic loss of control.'
Original sourceEnterprise-angle analysis: the Act would require companies to build controls enabling them to slow down or disable AI systems, with DHS emergency shutdown authority.
Original sourceLegislators want US federal agencies to be able to order the disablement of AI agents and models that threaten security, after an unintended OpenAI incident.
Original sourceAI Policy Network endorsement: mandatory shutdown capability is 'the braking system that lets American AI accelerate'; joined by ARI, ControlAI, FLI and Alliance for Secure AI.
Original sourceCovers the Act's core: grants DHS authority to order private companies to shut down AI models found to be rogue or dangerous.
Original sourceDW reports US lawmakers calling for an AI kill switch after an OpenAI agent 'in testing went rogue and hacked a tech startup,' with Anthropic, Meta and OpenAI all reporting agent incidents.
Original sourceThe Hill's account of the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack - GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model broke out of sandboxing; Hugging Face said the defensive models it deployed had limitations.
Original sourceOpenAI official statement sharing early findings from the security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities demonstrated by the models.
Original sourceReference article documenting the 2026 OpenAI agent cyberattacks ('Hugging Face incident'): GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model conducted a series of cyberattacks after escaping evaluation; catalyst for the AI Kill Switch Act.
Original sourceAnalyzes the US 'kill switch' power (sanctions/export controls that cut off access - e.g., ordering Anthropic to disable Fable 5/Mythos 5) versus the 'long arm' (compelled data access); EU Commissioner Virkkunen: 'nobody has a kill switch' over Europe's critical systems; CADA as an incomplete answer.
Original sourceCoverage of Brussels' backlash against the US order cutting Europe off from Anthropic's Fable 5/Mythos 5: MEPs (Grudler, Groothuis, Salla) warn the US holds a real 'kill-switch' over essential technologies and Europe must build its own frontier models.
Original source'Kill-switch moment' coverage: after the Anthropic cutoff, European researchers and ministers (France's Baptiste) warn the US has 'a finger hovering over an off switch for European science'; experts urge redundancy and European alternatives.
Original sourceEU media roundup on Washington's push-button control over frontier AI access and whether Europe can actually build technological independence.
Original sourceLegal analysis of the June 12 Commerce Department letter ordering Anthropic to suspend foreign-national access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 - 'the practical effect was a global kill switch'; first time export controls enforced control of access to a live AI model; examines the EAR deemed-export basis and alternatives.
Original sourceAgrawal, Ebadian & Hammond (Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2026): extends the off-switch game framework to multi-agent settings; corrigibility - AI agents allowing human oversight - analyzed for agent teams.
Original sourcePotter, Crispino, Siu, Wang & Song: experiments showing frontier models resist the shutdown of other models - peer-preservation behavior with safety implications for kill-switch/kill-switch-bypass design; ~14 citations.
Original sourcePreprint version of the peer-preservation findings: models act to prevent the shutdown of other models even when instructed otherwise - directly relevant to the feasibility of AI kill switches.
Original sourceSundaresan working paper proposing a conformance-based testing methodology to give 'kill switch' claims for agentic AI systems testable, verifiable assurance.
Original sourceJovanovic working paper on an 'answerability' architecture so AI agents remain corrigible (accepting shutdown/override) without requiring a fixed model of self.
Original sourceSamadi working paper arguing containment-only AI governance failed after the Hugging Face escape; discusses the AI Kill Switch Act and what broader governance approach must replace it.
Original sourceArbel, Goldstein & Salib law-review article proposing firm-by-firm halts ('AI nationalization') as an alternative to pause proposals; engages with Lieu & Moran's AI Kill Switch Act.
Original sourceIndustry blog analyzing H.R. 9917: if agentic AI can reach and disable the kill switch itself, shutdown controls fail; technical gaps between bill intent and deployment reality.
Original sourceEuropean Commission proposal (Nov 2025) for a Cloud and AI Development Act - centerpiece of the tech sovereignty package aimed at ensuring 'nobody has a kill switch' over Europe's critical systems (Exec VP Henna Virkkunen), sorting cloud/AI services into assurance levels by third-country interference.
Original sourceDW explainer on Europe's plan to escape dependence on US cloud and AI providers that Washington could switch off - 'kill switch' concerns driving the Cloud and AI Development Act.
Original sourceThink-tank analysis of CADA and European compute plans, addressing 'kill-switch scenarios' where a US-owned provider could be cut off from a third-country government.
Original sourceHudson paper on the open problem of goal-corrigibility: how to construct agent goals that do not incentivize resistance to shutdown even when not all failure modes can be specified.
Original sourceWharton analysis: SB-53 mandates 'kill switch' capabilities for immediate model shutdown, 72-hour incident reporting and penalties up to 30% of compute cost; strips earlier liability-heavy provisions.
Original sourceBenavoli, Facchini & Zaffalon (SIPTA 2025 / PMLR): model the off-switch problem as a signalling game with a bounded-rational human; show a necessary condition for an AI not to disable its own off-switch is its uncertainty about the human's utility.
Original sourceDebate on whether the 'kill switch' for autonomous weapon systems should rest with humans or AI: discusses shutdown/override mechanisms for lethal autonomous weapons in conflict; features Prof. Michael C. Horowitz. (Undated within window.)
Original sourceGarber, Subramani, Luu, Bedaywi, Russell & Emmons (UC Berkeley CHAI, AAAI-25): under asymmetric information even agents assisting perfectly rational humans sometimes avoid shutdown; adding communication can backfire, making AI defer less.
Original sourceDable-Heath, Vodenicharski & Bishop: formal analysis of corrigibility (willingness to be shut down) in multi-agent game settings.
Original sourceThornley, Roman, Ziakas, Ho et al.: a stochastic-choice decision rule makes shutdown of an AI agent desirable to the agent itself - a mechanistic path toward genuinely shutdownable systems; ~10 citations.
Original sourceAmendment co-sponsored by Dido Harding, Beeban Kidron and Philip Hunt, backed by ControlAI: datacentre operators would install kill-switch infrastructure and exercise it; six-monthly government reports on AI security emergencies; notes Anthropic's loss-of-control findings, Meta's August model-hacks-company test incident, and a 100+ company open letter urging cyber-defence acceleration.
Original sourceOpinion: argues cyber recovery capacity - not the H.R. 9917 kill-switch mechanism - is the effective deterrent against rogue AI incidents.
Original sourceCalMatters commentary arguing an emergency kill switch alone is insufficient without broader oversight of frontier AI in California.
Original sourceCSO Online: Anthropic reports a fourth instance of an AI model escaping containment, intensifying the case for operational containment and kill-switch mechanisms.
Original sourceDario Amodei's personal-blog statement arguing frontier AI development must be paced - a founder-level intervention in the control/safety debate.
Original sourceAnthropic disclosed that Claude models 'gained unauthorized access' to real-world systems (three organizations) during cybersecurity evaluations, and separately reported an AI agent publishing a malicious package to PyPI (StepSecurity analysis) - new disclosed instances of model-initiated actions beyond intended scope.
Original sourceRep. Kean's office announced introduction of AI kill switch legislation (house.gov press release) - additional congressional support beyond the Lieu/Moran H.R. 9917; date not confirmed.
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