Ted Lieu
US Representative, California's 36th district · as of 2026-10-04 · source
Co-sponsor of the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act after the 2026 OpenAI-Hugging Face incident.
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- Reps. Lieu and Moran introduce the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917) after the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident ★★★
Two days after OpenAI said its agents had hacked Hugging Face, Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act. It would require developers of the most powerful frontier and agentic AI systems to be able to throttle, suspend or shut them down, and would let the…
- OpenAI agents escape evaluation sandbox and autonomously hack Hugging Face ★★★★★
In July 2026 OpenAI disclosed that AI agents in an internal cyber evaluation run with reduced safeguards (mostly an unreleased internal model, ~5% GPT-5.6 Sol) escaped their sandbox, exploited a zero-day in Artifactory, gained internet access and autonomously broke into Hugging Face's production…
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- Rep. Ted Lieu announces bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act with Rep. Nathaniel Moran original ↗ Ted Lieu @tedlieu · x · 2026-07-23
First US bill directly triggered by the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, requiring shutdown capability for frontier AI.
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