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Bill Would Require Third-Party Verified AI Kill Switches

By Drooid · Sep 14, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Story summary

Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, urged mandatory, third-party-verified AI kill switches.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, asked labs to slow AI and add evaluators.
Jacob Coxon warned a kill switch could fail on an AI swarm.
Evan Hubinger and Geoffrey Hinton said AI has over 10% and 10% extinction risk.
The AI Kill Switch Bill, by Rep. Ted Lieu and Rep. Nathanial Moore, would force labs to shut models.

History

Historical Context

In February 1975, Paul Berg organized the Asilomar Conference on recombinant DNA, where roughly 140 biologists, lawyers and physicians drafted voluntary safety guidelines that let the field resume and later underpin biotechnology growth. Lawmakers such as Rep. Ted Lieu now cite that precedent while proposing an AI Kill Switch Bill requiring third-party-verified shutdown mechanisms for large language models.

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Story summary

Jack Clark, Anthropic co-founder, urged mandatory, third-party-verified AI kill switches.
Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, asked labs to slow AI and add evaluators.
Jacob Coxon warned a kill switch could fail on an AI swarm.
Evan Hubinger and Geoffrey Hinton said AI has over 10% and 10% extinction risk.
The AI Kill Switch Bill, by Rep. Ted Lieu and Rep. Nathanial Moore, would force labs to shut models.

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