Michael Darius Eastwood · Independent AI alignment researcher
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EU Tech Sovereignty Package (Chips Act 2.0 + CADA): 'We want to be sure nobody has a kill switch' (Virkkunen) - infrastructure-as-leverage at policy level.
The European Commission's technology sovereignty package of June 2026, Chips Act 2.0 and the Cloud and AI Development Act, was presented with the sentence 'We want to be sure nobody has a kill switch.' The legislation is anti-kill-switch in intent: it treats foreign-controlled infrastructure as an unacceptable lever over European systems. That is the Chokepoint thesis ratified by a bloc of twenty-seven states, from the defensive side.
Note the framing carefully: the EU is not legislating kill switches into chips. It is legislating against being on the receiving end of someone else's.
Open the primary source above. Confirm the date. Confirm the finding. Then compare it against the manuscript passage or artifact named in the register entry, whose SHA-256 hash is published on the evidence page. Nothing in this article asks for trust; the entry either survives that comparison or it comes off the register, publicly, the way the programme's retracted scaling figure did.
From the book Infinite Architects: Intelligence, Recursion, and the Creation of Everything by Michael Darius Eastwood.