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Op-ed / Position paper · 2026-09-21
Datacenter Bans or AI Deregulation? Neither: Prohibit ASI
ControlAI, 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.
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'.