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

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arXiv:2609.22882v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from two of its most capable models. Unable to sort users by nationality, 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 a dedicated AI governance regime. Lawmakers have begun to address stopping, yet their