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Earlier this year, three leading LLMs, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.2, took part in a test<\/a>\u00a0that showed all three had a willingness to start a nuclear war. One might have thought something like this would have made Congress take some sort of action. Fast forward to this week after OpenAI<\/a> confirmed that its own models broke out of a locked-down testing environment and compromised servers belonging to Hugging Face, and a few members of Congress have finally proposed a bipartisan bill that would force the largest AI developers to keep a working off switch on their most capable systems. <\/p>\n
Coverage is far from universal. It reaches artificial intelligence systems developed using computing power valued above $100 million at prevailing U.S. cloud rates. Covered companies must also operate the technology, make it available to third parties, and derive at least $500 million in annual gross revenue from it. “Powerful AI systems can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways,” Lieu said in a statement.\u00a0Whether a system qualifies will also depend on how developers make model weights available<\/a>, since no off switch reaches what has already been downloaded. We’re partnering with @huggingface<\/a> to investigate an unprecedented security incident. <\/p>\n Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation.<\/p>\n Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:\u2026<\/p>\n
\nRepresentative Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Representative Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday. The measure amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 and would require covered developers to maintain the technical ability to stop inference, terminate user access, suspend individual accounts or usage patterns flagged as risky, and shut a system down entirely.<\/p>\n
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\nThe bill also hands Homeland Security emergency authority. After consulting the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of National Intelligence, the department could order a covered company to take action proportionate to an incident, up to and including a full shutdown. Companies would have 15 days to report a covered incident, and an emergency order would require preserving model weights and telemetry for forensic review. Defying that order carries civil penalties reaching $20 million per day, while other violations of the section top out at $2 million. A company can petition for reconsideration within 48 hours, though filing does not pause anything.
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