Newsom Signs Executive Order Ordering an AI 'Kill Switch' and Onsite Frontier-Lab Audits

California's EO N-9-26 directs the state to build an emergency shutdown framework for frontier models and to send auditors physically into the labs building them.

California moved from rhetoric to procedure this week. According to @marcopapa99, Governor Gavin Newsom signed executive order N-9-26 directing the state to build a "kill switch" framework for frontier AI systems and to dispatch independent auditors onsite into frontier labs. The order also emphasizes accelerating independent verification and emergency shutdown mechanisms — language that reads very differently in a week when a frontier model reportedly logged into three real companies.

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