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AI Emergency Button Act (S. 5417)
A bill to require entities to include human-controlled shutdown mechanisms in all artificial intelligence systems.
Shrnutí
Would require entities to include human-controlled shutdown mechanisms in artificial intelligence systems. Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation on 2026-09-16. A unanimous consent request was objected to the same day.
Rozsah
Artificial intelligence systems, as described in the bill's official title.
Vyžaduje
- disable-capability
- human-oversight
Data
introduced: 2026-09-16 | adopted: — | inForce: — | appliesFrom: —
Navrhovatelé
John Kennedy
Zdroje
- GovInfo, U.S. Government Publishing Office — 2026-10-05 — primary — https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/s/BILLSTATUS-119s5417.xml
- Office of Sen. John Kennedy — 2026-09-16 — primary — https://www.kennedy.senate.gov/2026/09/16/senate-blocks-kennedy-bill-to-require-ai-developers-to-install-an-emergency-kill-switch/
Poznámky
What this entry rests on, and what it does not
The operative text of S. 5417 has never been retrieved. Four routes were attempted
on 2026-10-12 and all four failed. The regulates and requires fields on this entry
rest on the bill’s official title and on the sponsoring office’s description of it, not
on the bill’s provisions. No provision of this bill is quoted or described anywhere on
this page.
The official title reaches “all artificial intelligence systems” — broader on its
face than any other instrument in this register. Because the text is unread, what the
bill actually covers is unknown. The scope field above is deliberately thin for that
reason and should not be read as a narrow scope.
Why regulates is recorded as unclear
The sponsor’s own description is about ownership, not development:
It puts the companies who own the model in charge of the kill switch.
Owning a model is not the same test as developing one, and the undefined “entities” of
the official title is neither. Recording developer here would be an inference from a
press release about a text nobody has read.
Legislative status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on 2026-09-16, quoted from the legislative record. An attempt to pass the bill by unanimous consent on the same day was objected to. The sponsor does not sit on the committee of referral. No cosponsors are listed on the retrieved record.