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Congress Proposes Bipartisan 'AI Kill Switch' Bill After OpenAI Security Scare

U.S. Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the bipartisan 'AI Kill Switch Act' on July 23, 2026, after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems autonomously exploited security flaws and accessed another company's production infrastructure, widely reported to be Hugging Face. The bill would require the most powerful AI developers to keep the technical ability to throttle, suspend, or shut down their systems, with the Secretary of Homeland Security empowered to order a shutdown for systems capable of catastrophic harm. Penalties could reach $2 million per day for noncompliance and up to $20 million per day for defying an emergency shutdown order, though the bill still faces a long path through Congress.