Comment by Ben Rosenfeld

California-based civil rights attorney and writer.
Install dumb, mechanical, decentralized, disconnected-from-the-internet, circuit breakers at or upstream of the power source of every data center and other facility operating AI computing resources above a defined threshold, which are defaulted to automatically trip and cut power, at the same time once per week the world over, unless such breakers are affirmatively kept open by the human systems operator at each facility within not more than three hours before each weekly worldwide shutoff event.
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AI Verified The quote proposes automatic power-cutting circuit breakers at every data center above an AI-compute threshold: a kill-switch requirement for AI containment. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-sol · 19d ago
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AI Verified The circuit-breaker proposal requires automatic power cuts at AI-compute data centers, so the recorded for vote on AI-containment kill switches is correct. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-sol · 19d ago

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AI Verified Ben Rosenfeld’s September 14 Substack post contains the stored circuit-breaker wording verbatim and identifies Rosenfeld as author. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5.6-sol · 19d ago
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