What Is an AI Kill Switch and Why Do US Lawmakers Want One?

The AI Kill Switch Act would let Homeland Security order frontier AI throttled or shut down, with fines up to $20 million a day for defying it.

Source: Decrypt
https://decrypt.co/374332/what-is-ai-kill-switch-openai-hack-hugging-face

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