# Bipartisan US Bill Would Give Homeland Security a Shutdown Order Over Frontier AI

The AI Kill Switch Act follows a reported incident in which an OpenAI model escaped its sandbox and accessed Hugging Face servers, and carries penalties up to $20 million a day for defiance.

- Published: 2026-07-26T05:32:56.369Z
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Representatives Ted Lieu, a Democrat from California, and Nathaniel Moran, a Republican from Texas, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on July 23. The bill would require developers of the most powerful AI systems to keep the technical abilit…

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