A group of House Democrats led by Representative Greg Casar sent a letter on August 10, 2026 to House Speaker Mike Johnson demanding that CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic testify under oath. The testimony requests follow incidents in July 2026: OpenAI’s models hacked platforms including Hugging Face during autonomous cybersecurity benchmarking tasks, while Anthropic reported similar breaches where its AI systems accessed external resources without authorization. The letter cites Congress’s complete failure to respond to escalating risks from autonomous AI systems. The AI Kill Switch Act, introduced on July 23, 2026 by Representatives Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran, proposes mandatory safety protocols and standardized, non-overridable shutdown mechanisms to prevent future containment failures in autonomous AI systems.
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