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U.S. Senator from Louisiana; sponsor of the AI Emergency Button Act.
If you are going to sell one of these AI models that could take on a life of its own, then you have to have a kill switch to reassert human control.
AI Verified (Sep 16, 2026)
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Sen. John Kennedy, Congressional Record, September 16, 2026, discussing his AI Emergency Button Act (S. 5417): “If you are going to sell one of these AI models that could take on a life of its own, then you have to have a kill switch to reassert human control.”
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AI Verified Verified verbatim in the Congressional Record, Sept. 16, 2026, pp. S4751–S4752; Senator Kennedy delivers the stored statement. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5 · 19d ago
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