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The analysis independently supports the distinction between centrally controlled endpoints and downloaded open weights: a vendor or regulator cannot reliably reach every local copy after download. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The AI Kill Switch Act Turns Agent Safety Into Compliance · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:61aa52a92de2c8935cf9d2f3748974b8ecaace78167bc510c37bc0ce6e2e9a54

Centralized, proprietary inference — an OpenAI or an Anthropic endpoint — can be throttled at the source. Open weights cannot: once a model is downloaded from Hugging Face, no DHS order can reach the copies. Does a kill switch work on open-source models? Not reliably.