‘Powerful AI systems can go rogue, behave in extremely dangerous ways, or even resist human intervention’: A bill requiring AI systems to have a ‘kill switch’ is now in Congress

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• A bipartisan bill introduced to Congress calls for AI models to have a kill switch
• The bill follows months of warnings about the dangers of rapidly advancing AI technology from major AI firms
• An 'unprecedented cyber incident' between OpenAI and Hugging Face prompted the introduction of the bill

A bill requiring powerful frontier artificial intelligence systems have an in-built ‘kill switch’ has been presented to Congress in the wake of the OpenAI cyberattack against Hugging Face.