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

arXiv:2609.22882 · cs.CY, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-09-19 · Read on arXiv

cs.CY, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-09-19

Updated: 2026-09-19

Comments: 103 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables, with a technical supplement on coding methods and inter-coder agreement. Original coding of 1,400 AI Incident Database incidents (May 2026 snapshot), each coded independently by two LLMs from different laboratories. Survey of 39 AI-governance instruments current to July 2026. Also at https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=7483441

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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