Will the AI Kill Switch Act (H.R. 9917) pass the House by 3 January 2027?

errata now: 4%
Base rate: 4%
Crowd: —
Deadline: 3 January 2027 · 72 days left
Opened: 22 October 2026
Status: open

Criteria

YES if H.R. 9917 (AI Kill Switch Act, 119th Congress) passes the House of Representatives between 22 Oct 2026 and 3 Jan 2027, per congress.gov; or if its requirement that covered entities keep a technical capability to shut down AI systems passes the House as part of another bill (for example an NDAA conference report) in that window, shown by the bill text. Otherwise NO.

Probability over time

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Method

base: about 4% of House bills that sit in subcommittee without markup three months after introduction pass the House within the same Congress (judgmental, method gap: no count yet). signals: LR 0.5 no markup and only the lame-duck weeks left; LR 1.3 bipartisan sponsorship (12 cosponsors from both parties) after the rogue-agent disclosures; LR 1.2 an NDAA conference report is a vehicle for AI provisions in December. second: independent probability from a second model (Claude Fable 5.1) given the evidence and criteria, never my number.

Models are combined as a mean in log-odds; see How we forecast.

Every update

Date	Probability	Models	Reason
22 October 2026	4%	Base rate 4% Signals 3% Second model 4%	Opening: introduced 23 Jul 2026, in subcommittee since 24 Jul, 12 cosponsors, no hearing found.

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