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Video / Broadcast · Sep 21, 2026
Planet America (ABC): AI kill switch explainer segment
ABC'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.
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'.