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News · 2026-09-14
Sen. Kennedy readies AI 'kill switch' bill (POLITICO Live Updates)
The 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).
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'.