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Susan Sheythe's avatar

Absolutely as long as that kill switch canโ€™t be used on us. ๐Ÿ˜Ž

Barbara Murray's avatar

The sooner the better !!!!

Paul T. LeClair's avatar

What's to prevent the AI from recognizing that a "kill switch" has been installed or the ability exists to execute it, and the AI overrides that ability? What's to prevent a hacker from finding a "go round" to bypass the "kill switch"? What is needed is the ability to shut down the power to the AI and prevent it from being powered back up permanently with the location of that AI so it can be recovered from the person who owns it.

Mare Stanton's avatar

Yes to this. Well stated.

Paige's avatar

Yes! Why would you let anything that could control your life and learn about your life and pretend it is you. We already have enough scammers. You will be opening Pandoraโ€™s box and if you canโ€™t shut it then youโ€™re well (f.@:(@โ€˜)โ€ฆ

Paving the way to identity theft, mind control of our children (letโ€™s face today they already follow what they see one social media) are not to bright and arenโ€™t taught to think for themselves.

So definitely yes have a kill switch and there should be one in every single home. If you donโ€™t want it you shouldnโ€™t have it forced down your throat.

Michael's avatar

Whats preventing AI, one day, deciding Humans are unneeded? Toxic cargo on collision courses via Trains? Mid air of conflicting takeoff/ landing informations? Toxic Foods, or Water contaminations? Traffic lights Green, in all directions? With AI, NEVER say Neverโ€ฆ

Elizabeth Downs's avatar

We would need to leave the internet completely. It would always be able to lurk ready to reactivate.

Michael's avatar

Once Nano Technoligy is in our many systems, Iโ€™ve read that Nicotine, is a strong remover/disabling substance.

Michael's avatar

Manually operated circuit breakers,can kill power.

Michael's avatar

Most residences, have between 100 to 200 AMP, main house circuit breakers. Manually opened, or closed.

Elizabeth Downs's avatar

What is needed is to stop ai being able to close our water processing plants and power stations.

Elizabeth Downs's avatar

The Kill Switch discussion shows up the mistaken impression that ai won't be able to quickly work out how to bypass it.

Trenton Ian Cook's avatar

Youโ€™re pointing at a real pressure point, but youโ€™re working at the wrong layer. This is not a development issue. It is a commit issue. Risk forms when generated capability crosses into real-world execution without a governed boundary.

Mirror Field Operating System (MFOS) operates at that boundary by enforcing a mandatory pause at the moment output becomes action and requiring ownership, evidence tier and consequence scope to be declared before anything proceeds. AI produces momentum. MFOS determines whether that momentum is permitted to resolve into action. A kill switch is an emergency shutdown. MFOS is pre-commit governance that defines where a decision becomes binding and inserts control before irreversible impact.

Global prohibition depends on alignment and enforcement that do not hold at scale, while these systems already operate inside financial, infrastructure, and communication flows. The governing layer is execution. Control the boundary where decisions become real.

Matthew M Everett's avatar

Stop AI from destroying human reasoning.

Jack Jacobson's avatar

We cannot have AI that breaks into any secure system!

Stephan's avatar

Yes, A Kill Switch is a must.

One should not disregard in the risk-profile a type of 'Tech-Covid19' scenario, with billions of Agentic-Agents infecting platforms of technological hardware/software, which would include all types of communication forms like cell phones, cell phone towers, data centres, satellites, etc. as well.

AI-technology-related Shareholders and stakeholders should be held accountable by the full force of the LAW. The private and public corporations ought to be enforced by LAW (not a meaningless AI-Policy) to provide GUARANTEES to world populations to justify their prediction-products, and be subjected to consequences of the LAW (i.e. โ€˜โ€˜murder chargesโ€™โ€™/โ€™โ€™theft chargesโ€™โ€™/โ€fraud-chargesโ€™โ€™/etc.) when consequences cause harm when AI steers from assumed trajectories, including an economic tsunami/disaster of some kind.

Any intentional/non-intentional AI-Agent deployment of any kind (i.e. any person deploying AI-Agents, including Governmental Spheres) as part of a chain-of-events causing aforementioned harm, should be addressed as well.

The TOP 1000 TECH corporations in the world should be in full view of the 'lens-eye' of the LAW a.s.a.p to instil an incredibly strong message to these unprecedented power houses, and lone wolf rangers.

We need not AI-Policies to steer the countries. We need LAW with consequences to the role players, and the penalty should equal the harm, at the very least.

Rachel Tinker's avatar

Like with many safety-critical fields, there are deliberate mechanisms to stop or limit harm quickly. So while this may not directly be a โ€˜kill switchโ€™! There must be something in place.

Tim Mrva's avatar

Absolutely! ๐Ÿ‘