{"id":1023208,"date":"2026-07-24T08:00:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023208"},"modified":"2026-07-24T08:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T02:33:47","slug":"ai-kill-switch-bill-floated-by-us-house-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/24\/ai-kill-switch-bill-floated-by-us-house-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"AI &#8216;kill switch&#8217; bill floated by US House lawmakers"},"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 \u200cUS. House \u2060lawmakers, \u2060days 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. It would empower the US Department of Homeland Security to intervene in \u2060what the \u200cbill calls a &#8220;loss-of-control scenario,&#8221; defined as the AI model carrying out a risky action \u2060that was not intended by the developer, according to the text of the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"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 \u200cUS. House \u2060lawmakers, \u2060days after AI firm OpenAI announced one of its models had gone rogue. The legislation, called the &#8220;AI Kill Switch Act,&#8221; is backed by Democrat Ted Lieu and Republican Nathaniel Moran. It would empower the US Department of Homeland Security to intervene in \u2060what the \u200cbill calls a &#8220;loss-of-control scenario,&#8221; defined as the AI model carrying out a risky action \u2060that was not intended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023238,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023208\/revisions\/1023238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}