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News · 2026-07-23
House AI 'kill switch' bill unveiled as OpenAI hack raises alarms (POLITICO)
Bipartisan 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.
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'.