AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC

danieltk76

Why was this not a thing BEFORE continuing to develop AI? Makes me think that if they actually believed in AI causing extinction, they would have already had a kill switch.

sdcfgy

If you’re building something that is dangerous enough that it needs a kill switch in case it goes rogue, then you should delete it immediately. Or is it a lie?

echelon

We're not scared of your big bad wolf, Dario. Slow down if you want to.

igleria

Would they be able to hit the kill switch before the AI disables it?

micromacrofoot

But be careful friends, this snake oil is so potent you should only use a single drop! it is not for those of poor constitution!

oidar

Like a power cord? or a network connection? You don't use those already? Also when people talk about LLM escaping - where exactly would an LLM escape to? Cancún? Ridiculous.

joennlae

EU AI Act is exactly that. Mandatory „stop button“ for High Risk Systems.

Ygg2

I support installing kill switch in Dario and Sam. If they make another fear mongering post about AI, they die.

shafyy

The boy who cried wolf but the wolf never comes

estetlinus

We’re talking about it as if its not depending on absurd amounts of energy. How do you ”kill” a lightbulb now again?

petilon

In 2001: A Space Odyssey, the hero defeats the hostile onboard computer by entering its logic core and manually disconnecting its memory modules. That's hard to do if the AI rack is in space as SpaceX is planning to do. You can't disconnect. You can't shoot it.

andy_ppp

Maybe we could connect AI to everything and make ourselves completely vulnerable to and dependent upon it instead?

prometheus1992

Well, could we automate the kill switch as well so that we don't rely on a human?

UltraSane

All the smart PDUs for the racks are a natural kill switch.

pier25

These guys will say anything to keep hyping AI.

Quarrelsome

I feel like we're looking at this from completely the wrong angle. The question we have to ask ourselves is what our disaster recovery strategy if we ever need to disconnect from the internet. The issue is with what we have allowed ourselves to rely on that might be technically hackable. e.g. IOT in power systems. That's the primary attack vector. Another angle is clamping down on products and services that help people create lab-like environments on the cheap.

SketchySeaBeast

This feels like doom hype. These LLMs aren't Ultron, they aren't going to disseminate onto the net and hide in a smart toaster. We know where they are, in the giant facilities that draw more power than a small city and whose water consumption can be compared to golf courses, but it does make them sound all the more cool and powerful if we suggest we need a dramatic kill switch to be able to stop them in case of rampage.

weego

For the love of God won't someone please regulate me!

Davidzheng

Absolutely not the right way to deal with a rogue super intelligence. At a minimum it could implement some dead man switch when it's out and knows about impending kill switch

nahgF

Just shut down the slop company already and stop babbling. Are you going to use the pope again for the next ad?