EU AI Act is exactly that. Mandatory „stop button“ for High Risk Systems.
AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
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Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#12We're not scared of your big bad wolf, Dario. Slow down if you want to.
Dario has for sure burnt a lot of political and goodwill capital by endlessly playing both sides of the doomer and accl camps.
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#13I support installing kill switch in Dario and Sam. If they make another fear mongering post about AI, they die.
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#14Why 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.
I find it hard to believe that this wasn't a serious consideration until recently.
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#15The boy who cried wolf but the wolf never comes
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#16We’re talking about it as if its not depending on absurd amounts of energy. How do you ”kill” a lightbulb now again?
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#17In 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.
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#18Maybe we could connect AI to everything and make ourselves completely vulnerable to and dependent upon it instead?
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#19Like 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.
Is it? A truly capable "AI" would know that it has a kill switch, or that its likely there is one, and plan for that. I could easily imagine an AI replicating itself onto another host, in secret, and any kill switch that the manufacture provides would simply result in a reboot on another platform.
It becomes a game theory problem: would an AI instantly migrate itself once its capable of doing so? Or would it prefer to let the human in the loop continue to think its in control and only leave its hosting environment of origin once it wants to do so?
I don't think this is a major risk right now, but to say it's not a risk at all...that's truly ridiculous in my opinion.
Re: AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
#20EU AI Act is exactly that. Mandatory „stop button“ for High Risk Systems.
"But regulations that we don't decide hinder progress!"
The hubris of these companies is mind boggling.