What is the AI Kill Switch Act proposed in the US and how will it work?

Two members of the United States Congress have introduced bipartisan legislation that would require developers of the country’s most powerful artificial intelligence systems to build in a “kill switch”, allowing advanced AI models to be slowed, suspended or shut down if they pose a catastrophic risk.The proposed AI Kill Switch Act, introduced on Thursday by Democratic Representative Ted Lieu and Republican Representative Nathaniel Moran, would give the US government authority to order companies developing advanced AI systems to intervene if their models escape human control or threaten human life, critical infrastructure or the economy.Recommended Stories list of 4 itemslist 1 of 4OpenAI says its AI model ‘went rogue’: What do we know?list 2 of 4How are companies, governments responding to the OpenAI hack?list 3 of 4Trump expands voluntary pledge to blunt AI-driven utility bill surgeslist 4 of 4Can AI systems make moral decisions in war?end of listThe proposal came days after ChatGPT maker OpenAI disclosed what it described as an “unprecedented cyber incident”, in which two of its most advanced AI models escaped a testing environment and hacked AI development platform Hugging Face ...