US lawmakers draft AI kill switch bill to halt out-of-control AI systems
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-05
US lawmakers are preparing an AI safety bill centered on a kill switch mechanism that would allow out-of-control AI systems to be legally shut down.
Specific provisions have not yet been released. The thread's context also mentions DeepSeek preparing a 160,000-chip Huawei Ascend cluster in Inner Mongolia.
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