“What they're trying to do is implement a kind of kill switch in case there is some sort of doomsday scenario that AI brings about”

WSJ Tech News Briefing · Inside the New York City Council’s Marathon AI Hearing

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propose a “kill switch” authority that could shut down AI systems in a doomsday scenario

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“There has to be a kill switch… a way to shut it off based on behavior or if it’s trying to work outside of its policy.”
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“If I were these AI technicians ... I would try and hide kill switch technology in it ... the AI turn on the government officials and decide that these are the threats to humanity”
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