Comment by Hamza Chaudhry

Over the past year, rapid advances in AI systems have already demonstrated the potentially severe national security risks they pose to the United States. Frontier systems are fast approaching the point where they can be deployed to run offensive cyber operations at machine speed and soon provide meaningful assistance in the development and deployment of chemical and biological weapons. And in controlled testing, advanced models tried to disable their own oversight and copy themselves onto outside servers to avoid being shut down. To guarantee American leadership in AI, it is a national security necessity to have the technical means and legal authorities to deactivate systems that pose serious risks to the American people.