{"id":564534,"date":"2026-07-23T16:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564534\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T16:55:07","slug":"us-politicians-propose-kill-switch-after-openai-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564534\/","title":{"rendered":"US politicians propose kill switch after OpenAI incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US homeland security officials would have the power to order AI firms to shut down models that put human life or the economy at risk, under legislation proposed by a bipartisan pair of US House politicians, after AI firm OpenAI announced one of its models had gone rogue.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, called the &#8220;AI Kill Switch Act,&#8221; is backed by Democrat Ted Lieu and Republican Nathaniel Moran.<\/p>\n<p>It would empower the US Department of Homeland Security to intervene in what the bill calls a &#8220;loss-of-control scenario,&#8221; defined as the AI model carrying out a risky action that was not intended by the developer, according to the text of the bill.<\/p>\n<p>The politicians announced the legislation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/news\/business\/2026\/0722\/1584512-openai-data-breach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">days after OpenAI said its AI agent went rogue during a security test and triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is urgent, common sense legislation to address the problem of an advanced AI model that has gone rogue and escaped its guardrails,&#8221; Mr Lieu wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p>The OpenAI incident signaled that AI&#8217;s expanding capabilities are already fueling the security threat experts long feared and that even top developers can be caught off-guard by flaws their models can exploit.<\/p>\n<p>Politico was first to report on the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US homeland security officials would have the power to order AI firms to shut down models that put&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-564534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}