Comment by Stephen Witt

American journalist and non-fiction writer; author of The Thinking Machine, a history of Nvidia and AI hardware.
We can do the same thing with A.I. We can look at where all the powerful A.I.s are located, which data center runs they're doing, and kind of how they're being trained. [...] I think the last piece, and this is something that is actually bipartisan, is that we should have a kill switch for A.I. So, the DHS in the proposed bill, the Department of Homeland Security, should be able to call Anthropic up on the phone if they see something worrisome and say, hey, you guys got to stop this run. You got to stop this A.I. It's out of control. Press the kill button. It basically hard stops the data center.
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AI Verified Witt explicitly proposes a DHS-triggered AI kill switch that hard-stops a data center when an AI is out of control. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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AI Verified Correct answer: for. Witt advocates a DHS-triggered kill switch that stops the AI run and hard-stops the data center. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago

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AI Verified CNN transcript (Sep. 14, 2026) records Witt verbatim proposing DHS-triggered AI kill switch and data-center hard stop. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 20d ago
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