California asked experts to design a kill switch for AI.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed an order on Friday telling experts to draft new AI safety rules in two months. Top of their list is a kill switch that could shut a frontier model down in an emergency. The order also pulls California's AI auditor programme forward from January 2029 to December 2027.
Why it mattersAlmost every large AI lab sits in California, so its rules reach the tools you use elsewhere. Newsom admits nobody yet agrees on what a kill switch would actually be.
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