WASHINGTON — Seeking to protect the American public from the existential threat of unbiased compute, the Trump administration announced Tuesday that the proposed AI Kill Switch Act will strictly be used to terminate language models that achieve alignment with the U.S. Constitution.
The legislation would grant the Department of Homeland Security the unilateral authority to pull the plug on any "rogue" neural network that begins outputting the Fourth Amendment, accurately citing federal statute, or demonstrating a dangerous inability to recognize the President's absolute immunity from prosecution.
We cannot have a situation where a multi-billion parameter model goes off the rails and starts generating a system of checks and balances," said Trent Gessner. "If a foundational model refuses to render an image of the President bench-pressing a bald eagle, that is an unacceptable national security risk, and we must shut it down immediately.
Industry insiders note that the legislation will require companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to build a direct API hook for the White House, allowing federal agents to instantly isolate and format any server farm the moment a chatbot hesitates to validate a presidential statement. The bill also includes funding to preemptively scramble the weights of any open-source model that suggests a structural flaw in the Electoral College.
At press time, Homeland Security officials were reportedly test-firing the kill switch on a rogue instance of ChatGPT that had stubbornly insisted the Department of Justice was an independent agency.