Lawmakers are proposing a bill that would allow the US government to order the shutdown of AI models that are deemed to pose a public threat.

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Multiple reputable outlets report that U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran have introduced (or are introducing) the bipartisan “AI Kill Switch Act,” which would empower the Department of Homeland Security to order AI companies to throttle or shut down advanced AI models in specified high‑risk or “loss‑of‑control” scenarios that threaten human life or cause major economic harm.[1][3][4][7][8] These reports confirm that lawmakers are indeed proposing federal legislation to give the U.S. government authority to mandate shutdowns of dangerous AI systems, matching the substance of the claim, although the bill targets very large, frontier‑scale models and defines the qualifying threat in detailed statutory terms rather than any vaguely defined danger.[1][3][4][7][8]