OpenAI’s rogue AI scare fuels push for ‘kill switch’


Courtney Rozen
Contributor

US President Donald Trump’s top technology adviser is monitoring the situation after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during testing, a White House official said on Thursday, as lawmakers proposed an “AI Kill Switch Act”, which would allow federal authorities to halt AI models.

In addition to the Kill Switch Act, a bipartisan group of six US House lawmakers also proposed legislation that would require …

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