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The Kill Switch Consensus | 09.23.26
California, Beijing, and the U.S. Congress each advanced binding mechanisms this week to constrain autonomous AI systems — not with new ethics statements, but with kill switches, tamper-proof audit logs, and mandatory agent inventories. Governor Newsom's executive order accelerates California's third-party AI auditor registry by more than a year and directs state experts to design a mandatory emergency shutoff for frontier models by mid-November. China's TC260 published the third revision of its AI Safety Governance Framework, adding its first dedicated risk taxonomy for agentic and embodied…
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