July 24th, 2026
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
The Alliance Applauds The AI Kill Switch Act
Following Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Rep. Nathaniel Moran’s (R-TX) introduction of the AI Kill Switch Act, Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of The Alliance for Secure AI, released the following statement:
“As AI systems grow more capable and more autonomous, no law guarantees that the companies building the most powerful models can actually shut a system down when it malfunctions, causes serious harm, or slips out of human control.
The AI Kill Switch Act closes that gap by requiring the largest AI developers to maintain the technical ability to contain or shut down their most powerful systems and by giving the government emergency authority to order a shutdown when a serious incident occurs.
Congressmen Lieu and Moran deserve credit for confronting this before a crisis forces the question, and Congress should act swiftly to ensure that humans remain the ones who can say stop, no matter how capable these systems become,” said Brendan Steinhauser, CEO of The Alliance for Secure AI.
The AI Kill Switch Act would require the largest AI developers to maintain safeguards capable of containing or shutting down their most powerful systems. It would also authorize the federal government to order an emergency shutdown when an AI system causes serious harm or poses an imminent risk to public safety.
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