'Artificial intelligence emergency button' bill blocked in the US Senate

According to The Hill newspaper, the concern about artificial intelligence turning into an independent entity, which has been recently discussed in the United States, was discussed in the Senate.

Because of these concerns, Senator John Kennedy proposed unanimously approving a bill that would require artificial intelligence companies to build "kill buttons" for their superintelligent models.

However, Senator Rand Paul blocked Kennedy's request to vote on the "Artificial Intelligence Emergency Button Bill" by rejecting it.

“If Congress rushes into action before this technology is understood, it risks killing innovation and lagging the technology decades behind,” Paul said in a statement. he said.

Arguing that the government's open-ended authority for a button or shutdown device that will issue this command could harm the use of artificial intelligence in the US economy, Paul stated that this issue should be studied in more detail.

Paul asked Kennedy to frame his proposal in favor of creating a bipartisan committee to investigate the risks posed by superintelligent artificial intelligence.

Kennedy objected to this request.

Other senators may object to a senator's request to vote on the bill in the US Senate, but the bill can still be brought to the Senate agenda and voted on through other procedures.

Discussions continue about slowing down the pace of development of artificial intelligence

With the rapid spread of artificial intelligence in the United States, calls to slow down the development of this technology before it reaches dangerous levels have intensified in recent days.

Leading names in the technology industry, including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, had called for artificial intelligence development efforts to be slowed down.

On the other hand, US President Donald Trump's administration adopts an approach that encourages innovation rather than new regulations that will slow down the development of artificial intelligence.

Trump claimed that "a sick conspiracy is being carried out" to get artificial intelligence technology out of control, and also argued that slowing down the work in this field would give China an advantage.