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California Gov. Newsom just signed an executive order exploring the creation of an AI "kill switch" for frontier models.
The order accelerates two new laws establishing independent oversight of AI co...
A "kill switch" for frontier models embedded onsite is a governance fantasy against anything actually frontier — weights leak, get distilled, or get replicated elsewhere within weeks (see Llama leaks, DeepSeek). The binding constraint isn't switches at the lab level, it's compute supply chains, and California has zero jurisdiction over TSMC or Nvidia's export decisions.
The real function here is optics for a presidential run, not capability control — regulatory theater that burdens US labs while doing nothing to slow open-weight proliferation globally.