Regulation and law · Safety and security
Newsom gave experts two months to draft AI safety rules, kill switch included
The executive order signed on September 18 calls for a group of experts to convene and, within two months, produce a plan to strengthen the state’s AI safety laws. It urges the group to consider an emergency kill switch that would shut down frontier AI models if something went badly wrong. Two more proposals sit alongside it: independent organizations drawing up comprehensive safety plans for AI companies, and those organizations embedding on site to run audits.
Sources
- Kaliforniya Valiliği (Office of Governor Gavin Newsom), “Governor Newsom issues executive order to accelerate independent oversight and advance the creation of an AI kill switch”, (gov.ca.gov)
- Kaliforniya Valiliği (Office of Governor Gavin Newsom), Text of Executive Order N-9-26 (signed PDF), (gov.ca.gov)
- NBC News, “California Gov. Gavin Newsom inks AI oversight executive order to improve safety ‘before it’s too late’”, (nbcnews.com)
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