Newsom Signs Executive Order Directing California to Develop an AI Kill Switch Plan

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order Friday directing California agencies to speed up independent oversight of frontier AI companies and study an emergency shutoff, a “kill switch,” for the most powerful models.

The order tells the Government Operations Agency, working with the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, to work with experts and deliver recommendations within two months.

Newsom said in a statement:

The federal government’s abject failure to create any form of meaningful AI over...