{"id":286167,"date":"2026-07-24T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T07:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=286167"},"modified":"2026-07-24T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:00:58","slug":"us-lawmakers-seek-ai-kill-switch-after-openai-models-go-rogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/286167\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers seek AI \u2018kill switch\u2019 after OpenAI models go rogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>US lawmakers want to give the government the ability to quickly order the turning off of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that may threaten the public, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2vqj2e9x8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Ted Lieu, a Democrat, and Congressman Nathaniel Moran, a Republican, on Thursday introduced a bill named the AI Kill Switch Act.<\/p>\n<p>They did so in light of OpenAI&rsquo;s recent admission that its AI models went out of control in an &ldquo;unprecedented&rdquo; way and hacked into a major repository of computer coding information.<\/p>\n<p>Lieu said &ldquo;it is imperative&rdquo; that AI systems have a kill switch &ldquo;and that the federal government has the clear authority and process to shut down rogue AI models.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers want to give the government the ability to quickly order the turning off of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that may threaten the public, the BBC writes. Congressman Ted Lieu, a Democrat, and Congressman Nathaniel Moran, a Republican, on Thursday introduced a bill named the AI Kill Switch Act. They did so in light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":286110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286172,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286167\/revisions\/286172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}