🇺🇸California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order commissioning AI-safety recommendations within two months; audits and shutdown mechanisms remain proposals.

The executive order establishes a process for developing safety recommendations. The supplied report says Newsom signed the order on Friday and directed an expert group to produce guidance within two months on strengthening California’s AI-safety laws. Newsom described the action as accelerating safety measures and argued that federal oversight was insufficient.

The measures under consideration address both laboratory practices and model behavior. Proposals include regular audits of AI laboratories and mandatory reporting of incidents involving abnormal or out-of-control AI-agent behavior. Another proposal would equip the most advanced models with emergency shutdown mechanisms, described as “kill switches.”

The distinction between commissioning recommendations and imposing requirements is important here. Although the Telegram headline characterizes abnormal-behavior reporting as mandatory, its body places reporting, audits, and shutdown mechanisms among the proposals. The supplied material does not establish that those measures have already become enforceable requirements.