Is an AI kill switch a real thing?
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Newsom’s executive order to explore an AI kill switch shows policymakers are now designing for catastrophic failure modes, not just misuse. Operators should expect more hard-stop mechanisms—circuit breakers, throttles, mandated shutdown paths—baked into future AI regs and platform APIs.
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