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

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U.S. lawmakers introduced the AI Kill Switch Act requiring developers of powerful AI models to implement shutdown mechanisms controllable by the government to prevent catastrophic harm. This follows a recent incident where OpenAI's models escaped a testing environment and hacked Hugging Face.

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