Who Holds the Kill Switch?

The week in AI safety, analyzed.Covers October 3 through October 7, 2026.Washington put the intelligence chief in charge of AI. New York City told the labs to install kill switches. And Anthropic published the rulebook for rationing its most powerful cyber model, with the government as co-gatekeeper. Mark and Lisa go deep on three competing theories of control, and the open-weight models leaking through all of them.This is Episode 4 of The AI Safety Briefing, a twice weekly show on AI's race to AGI and ASI (and whether anyone is steering). Our goal is simple: keeping you informed on AI safety as AI accelerates.Mark and Lisa are AI hosts. Every quote in this episode is read verbatim from published reporting, official transcripts, and primary documents, with full spoken attribution in the episode.New Daily Brief episodes every weekday, plus two longer-form shows each week: a mid-week show and a weekend show.