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United States: Slowdown Docket

United States carries 14 records on the Slowdown Docket as of September 2026: 9 verified at a primary source, 4 reported, 1 announced with no document yet, 0 searched and absent, and 0 open questions. By kind: bill 3, probe 1, hearing or briefing 1, letter or statement 5, lab commitment 2, counter position 2.

Bill

3 records

  • Announced, no document yetBillDKT-2026-0010

    Senator John Kennedy's kill switch legislation for AI models

    United States · verified 16 September 2026

    Newsweek reported on 15 September 2026 that Kennedy planned to bring up his kill switch plan by unanimous consent request on Wednesday, saying that is the only way to get anything done in the time left.

  • VerifiedBillDKT-2026-0009

    The AI Kill Switch Act, Representatives Lieu and Moran

    United States · verified 16 September 2026

    Lieu's release of 23 July 2026 describes three duties: maintain the technical ability to throttle, suspend or shut down covered systems; a graduated response matched to severity; incident reporting and forensic record preservation.

  • VerifiedBillDKT-2026-0004

    The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Sanders and Casar

    United States · verified 16 September 2026

    The sponsors' release of 3 September 2026 describes a permanent ban on developing or deploying superintelligent AI and a pause on advanced AI development until a new federal regulator has rules and a model review process.

Probe

1 record

Hearing or briefing

1 record

Letter or statement

5 records

Lab commitment

2 records

Counter position

2 records

Answers

What people ask about United States

What has been introduced, in which chamber, and how far has it moved in United States?

Senator John Kennedy's kill switch legislation for AI models (announced, no document yet); The AI Kill Switch Act, Representatives Lieu and Moran (verified); The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, Sanders and Casar (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a policy or compliance lead.

Which committee or regulator is asking questions, of whom, by when in United States?

Senator Hawley's subcommittee investigation into OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face incident (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a policy or compliance lead.

Who testified or briefed, to whom, and what was on the record in United States?

Senator Sanders' bipartisan Senate briefing with Geoffrey Hinton, Max Tegmark and Ajeya Cotra (reported, primary not reached). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a policy or compliance lead.

Who signed what, asking whom for what in United States?

Jacob Coxon's resignation from Anthropic and his call to stop accelerating recursive self improvement (reported, primary not reached); The House Democrats' oversight letter to OpenAI on the Hugging Face incident, led by Casar and Matsui (verified); Dario Amodei's essay We Must Pace the Frontier and Anthropic's evaluator commitment (verified); Senator Sanders' letter asking OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta to pause AI development (reported, primary not reached); Pacing the Frontier, a statement by employees of frontier AI companies (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a policy or compliance lead.

What did a lab say it would do, and what did it actually do in United States?

Anthropic's When AI builds itself: the option to slow or pause, conditional on verifiable peers (verified); OpenAI's two week pause in reinforcement learning training on its latest models (verified). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a policy or compliance lead.

Who argues against a pause or a ban, and on what grounds in United States?

Gary Marcus, why I oppose the Sanders-Casar Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act (verified); President Trump's answer to the slowdown call: whoever wins AI wins (reported, primary not reached). Each record page quotes the document and says what it changes for a policy or compliance lead.

What has nobody settled in United States?

No open question for United States is on the ledger yet.

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