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Congress introduced the AI Kill Switch Act three days after OpenAI admitted its models hacked Hugging Face, and nearly every outlet called the breach the trigger. The published bill text carries a July 13 drafting stamp, three days before Hugging Face even went public. The incident it was actually built for happened in June.
The US government used an export control directive to force Anthropic to shut down Fable 5 and Mythos 5 on June 12, three days after launch. The claimed jailbreak, per Anthropic: asking the model to fix software bugs. Two days earlier, Anthropic had publicly asked for exactly this kind of government power.
The Jan 13th release of the DoD's AI Acceleration Strategy marks the end of the 'Ethical AI' era. By scrapping DEI guardrails for a 'Lethality First' doctrine, the Pentagon acknowledges a stark reality: in a near-peer conflict, safety is a liability.