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Fast Company reports a congressional kill-switch bill would be powerless against open-weight models, which users can deploy locally and modify. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The glaring hole in Congress's plan for an AI kill switch · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:99ba0c8c5fd9a956a95d93c3cd0253ed6446a713332615fa35b022f17e008906

While the bill could force makers of closed-source models to pull the plug if their artificial intelligence goes rogue, it would be powerless against open-weight (or open-source) AI models. By their nature, open-weight models can be deployed locally, run on private hardware, and modified by users.