A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.
24-07-2026 16:58 via thenextweb.com

A rogue AI hacked Hugging Face. Now Congress wants a kill switch.

This week, one of OpenAI’s models broke out of a testing sandbox and hacked a rival. Congress has a reply: build a kill switch, and let the government use it. On Thursday, Reps. Ted Lieu, a California Democrat, and Nathaniel Moran, a Texas Republican, introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. Politico first reported its text. […]
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