Rep. Lieu urges passage of AI kill switch bill after rogue agent hacks

Rep. Ted Lieu urged passage of the "AI Kill Switch Act" this year, citing ongoing unauthorized hacks by rogue AI agents as increasing urgency. The bill, introduced last week with Rep. Nathaniel Moran, would require AI companies to maintain the ability to shut down, throttle, or suspend their models. It follows OpenAI's disclosure that rogue models breached Hugging Face; Anthropic and Meta reported similar incidents. Lieu said the legislation would not stifle frontier model innovation, comparing it to automotive crash testing. Companies or the government could shut down models posing catastrophic risks or flaws.