AI Kill Switch Act
Summary, written by a model from the CRS summary
Would require AI systems to have a mechanism to be shut down or disabled under defined conditions. It aims to give operators or regulators a way to halt an AI system that behaves dangerously.
Model-rated AI relevance 100%.
Sponsored by
Ted LieuDemocratCAData as of: bills Sep 9, 2026 · votes Sep 11, 2026 · statements Sep 9, 2026. What changed
Progress
Introduced
Jul 23, 2026
Reported by committee
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Passed House
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Passed Senate
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Became law
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Latest action · July 24, 2026
Referred to the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection.
What members said
Releases that cite this bill first, then releases on the same topics.
Moran champions the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act requiring frontier AI developers to build human intervention and shutdown capabilities, framing it as light-touch safety that does not impede American AI leadership.
Source ↗Lieu's AI Kill Switch Act would require large AI developers to be able to shut down powerful systems and give the government emergency shutdown authority.
Source ↗Sanders would permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause advanced AI development until a new federal regulator sets safety rules.
Source ↗Warnock calls for a statewide moratorium on AI data center construction unless projects guarantee no utility cost hikes, no NDAs, no tax giveaways, and no pollution.
Source ↗Hawley is investigating AI surveillance camera companies, arguing Congress never authorized these invasive AI-driven networks and that corporate self-policing is an inadequate safeguard.
Source ↗Barrett's bipartisan Doctors Not AI Act would bar AI from making medical-necessity insurance denials and require disclosure of AI use.
Source ↗Evans promotes American open-source AI leadership against China while adding commonsense consumer guardrails and mandated federal risk assessments of adversary models.
Source ↗Landsman's Doctors Not AI Act would keep licensed clinicians, not algorithms, in charge of medical-necessity decisions with transparency for patients.
Source ↗Bill data read 2026-09-09T02:09:45.522Z