House Bill Seeks DHS Authority to Throttle Rogue AI Systems

A bill introduced in the House Thursday (July 23) would require artificial intelligence (AI) developers to maintain the technical capacity to shut down their AI systems and would authorize the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to order such a shutdown. The sponsors of the AI Kill Switch Act , Rep. Nathaniel Moran , R-Texas, said in a Thursday press release that the recent hacking incident carried out by OpenAI ’s GPT-5.6 Sol model highlights the need for the