Director of National Intelligence

On July 23, 2026, two bills were introduced in Congress—the FRONTIER Act and the AI Kill Switch Act—each providing a mechanism for the government to issue emergency orders suspending or restricting fr…

Reps. Ted W. Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act, requiring developers of powerful AI systems to maintain the technical ability to throttle, suspend, or shut them down, and auth…

A proposed U.S. law would require AI companies to implement a government-controlled kill switch, giving the Department of Homeland Security authority to shut down AI systems that pose national securit…