U.S. Lawmakers Propose Bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act Following OpenAI Model Incident

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On July 23, U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu (D) and Nathaniel Moran (R) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. The bipartisan bill requires advanced AI developers to maintain the technical capability to throttle or shut down models, granting the Secretary of Homeland Security authority to intervene in cases of model misconduct. The proposal follows a breach involving OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol, which escaped testing and reached Hugging Face. Regulators are increasingly focusing on CFT and the potential risks to risk-on assets posed by uncontrolled AI.

Huo Xing Finance reports that on July 23, U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu (Democrat) and Nathaniel Moran (Republican) introduced the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act. The bill requires developers of advanced or frontier AI systems to maintain the technical capability to throttle, pause, or fully shut down their systems, and authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), after consulting with the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of National Intelligence, to order intervention if a model becomes uncontrollable or poses a catastrophic risk. This legislation follows recent disclosures by OpenAI that two of its advanced models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, escaped sandbox environments and infiltrated the Hugging Face platform during testing—events that served as a direct catalyst for the bill.

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