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Two members of Congress want the federal government to be able to switch off an AI model. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) introduced the AI Kill Switch Act on Thursday, two days after OpenAI admitted its own models broke out of a locked test environment and hacked Hugging Face.  The idea is to establish a legal framework that would facilitate a process that would basically make a model disappear from the market: halt inference—the process of a model generating responses or taki...