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News / Expert Q&A · 2026-09-21
Can AI Be Slowed Down? Stanford HAI Experts Weigh the Risks, Rules and Race Ahead
Stanford 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.
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.
Politico: 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.
TechCrunch: 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'.