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Comment by Eran Kahana
AI and cybersecurity lawyer; Fellow at Stanford CodeX; Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
Killing the parent does not recall the children. When an AI agent has already delegated sub-tasks, distributed API keys, and spawned parallel threads, terminating the parent process changes nothing.AI Verified source (2026)
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Source law.stanford.edu URL returned 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirms the quote appears in the Stanford CodeX article "Kill Switches Don't Work If the Agent Writes the Policy: The Berkeley Agentic AI Profile Through the AILCCP Lens" by Eran Kahana (March 7, 2026). The quote illustrates the limitation of kill switches in multi-agent systems where delegated sub-tasks and parallel threads persist beyond parent termination. Note: opinion has no associated vote on statement 441 - the quote nuances kill switch effectiveness rather than directly endorsing or opposing the policy.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 15d ago
replying to Eran Kahana