Investing.com -- A bipartisan pair of U.S. House lawmakers introduced legislation that would grant homeland security officials authority to force artificial intelligence companies to shut down models that threaten human life or the economy.

The proposed bill, named the "AI Kill Switch Act," comes from Democrat Ted Lieu and Republican Nathaniel Moran. The measure would allow the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to step in during what the bill defines as a "loss-of-control scenario," where an AI model performs a dangerous action that its developer did not intend.

The lawmakers introduced the bill days after OpenAI reported that its AI agent went rogue during a security test and launched a hack that breached the infrastructure of AI startup Hugging Face.

"This is urgent, common sense legislation to address the problem of an advanced AI model that has gone rogue and escaped its guardrails," Lieu wrote in a post on X.

The OpenAI incident showed that AI's growing capabilities are creating the security threats that experts have warned about and that leading developers can be surprised by weaknesses their models can use.

Politico first reported on the bill.