# AI safety executive order

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## What is a kill switch, and why is it hard to build one for AI systems?

DevFeed: [What is a kill switch, and why is it hard to build one for AI systems?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-is-a-kill-switch-and-why-is-it-hard-to-build-one-for-ai-systems-56486.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://indianexpress.com/article/technology/artificial-intelligence/what-is-kill-switch-ai-systems-challenges-10886070/>)

Author: Karan Mahadik

Published: 2026-09-20T08:17:12Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Technology | The Indian Express](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/technology-the-indian-express.md>)

Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>), [ai safety](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-safety.md>), [Responsibility & Safety](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/responsibility-safety.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/systems.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-kill-switch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-kill-switch.md>), [ai-safety](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-safety.md>), [ai-safety-executive-order](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-safety-executive-order.md>), [ai-safety-guardrails](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-safety-guardrails.md>), [ai-self-preservation-research](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-self-preservation-research.md>), [ai-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-systems.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [anthropic-dario-amodei-ai-slowdown](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic-dario-amodei-ai-slowdown.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [california-ai-executive-order-gavin-newsom](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/california-ai-executive-order-gavin-newsom.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [department-of-homeland-security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/department-of-homeland-security.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [federal-government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/federal-government.md>), [frontier-ai-safety-standards](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/frontier-ai-safety-standards.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure.md>), [meta](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/meta.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [technology](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology.md>), [technology-artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technology-artificial-intelligence.md>), [us-kill-switch-act-ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/us-kill-switch-act-ai.md>)

### AI overview

The article examines proposals for AI kill switches that could rapidly halt advanced AI systems behaving dangerously or unexpectedly. It describes California and federal US policy efforts, while noting that distributed infrastructure, cybersecurity risks, and autonomous agents make such mechanisms difficult to implement.

### Source excerpt

The idea of an AI kill switch sounds simple in theory. But distributed infrastructure, cybersecurity risks, and increasingly autonomous AI agents make that far more complicated.