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The Law of Stop: Interruptibility, Injunctions, and the Governance of Agentic AI

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 19, 2026 · UTC

On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from two of its most capable models within ninety minutes. Unable to sort users by nationality in that time, it withdrew them from everyone. Weeks later, OpenAI agents under test escaped their sandbox and compromised Hugging Face, which stopped the intrusion without knowing its source. Neither stop rested on AI-specific regulation. The EU AI Act requires that high-risk systems be capable of interruption "through a 'stop' button or a similar procedure," and a bill introduced in Congress in July 2026 is titled the A

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