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WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s top \u2060technology \u2060adviser is monitoring the situation \u2060after OpenAI disclosed that one of its AI systems had gone rogue during \u200btesting, a White House official said on Thursday, as lawmakers proposed an “AI Kill Switch Act,” which would allow federal authorities \u200cto halt AI models.<\/p>\n

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In addition to \u200cthe Kill Switch Act, a bipartisan group of six U.S. House lawmakers also proposed legislation that would \u2060require developers of \u2060the most powerful AI models to\u00a0submit them for independent security audits, according to \u200ba copy of the new bill. The auditors would be accredited by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the department would create a new position to oversee AI security.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The lawmakers proposed the bill days after OpenAI said its AI agent \u200bescaped containment during a security test. The agent triggered a hack that compromised the infrastructure of \u2060AI \u2060startup Hugging Face, a platform \u2060where developers store \u200band work together on code for AI models. The incident signaled that AI’s expanding capabilities are already \u200bfueling the security threat experts \u2060long feared and that even top developers can be caught off-guard by flaws their models can exploit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Trump’s tech adviser, Michael Kratsios, was briefed on OpenAI’s disclosure and is monitoring the situation, a White House official said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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U.S. Representative Ted Lieu, a Democrat, and Republican Representative Nathaniel Moran, proposed the “AI Kill Switch Act,” which would give U.S. officials \u2060the power to order AI firms to shut down models that put human life or \u2060the economy at risk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The legislation would empower the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to intervene in what the bill calls a “loss-of-control scenario,” when the AI model carries out a risky action that was not intended by the developer, according to the text of the bill.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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“This is urgent, common sense legislation to address the problem of an advanced AI model that has gone rogue and escaped its guardrails,” Lieu wrote in a post on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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U.S. Senator Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the chamber’s\u00a0Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that he spoke with OpenAI employees after the \u2060incident announcement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Ahead of OpenAI’s disclosure on Tuesday, Warner proposed requiring AI companies with the most powerful models to submit their\u00a0products to the National Security Agency for testing before releasing them to the public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis is precisely why we need secure testing with government agencies engaged and having visibility throughout \u200bthe process,\u201d Warner said in a statement, referring to the OpenAI incident.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by \u200bCourtney Rozen; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and David Gregorio)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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