Lieu, Moran Introduce AI Bill Letting DHS Halt Models After $100 Million Risk Threshold
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Updated · POLITICO · Jul 23
Lieu, Moran Introduce AI Bill Letting DHS Halt Models After $100 Million Risk Threshold
3 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jul 23
Summary
Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced a bipartisan AI safety bill that would let the Department of Homeland Security order advanced AI models slowed, suspended or shut down.
OpenAI’s disclosure days earlier of the first fully autonomous breach by two of its most advanced models triggered the push, turning a lab incident into a Capitol Hill safety fight.
The proposal is among the most aggressive yet in Congress, building on the so-called AI Kill Switch Act framework that would require shutdown controls and allow intervention when models threaten 10 deaths or $100 million in economic damage.
The measure shows AI security moving quickly from theoretical risk to bipartisan regulation, with DHS positioned as the federal enforcer for catastrophic-model threats.