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Comment by Todd McKinnon

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CEO and co-founder of Okta, identity and access management company
Stuff is going to go wrong, and there's going to be issues, threats, and prompt injection. It's almost like you would take a machine off the network.
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AI Verified Yahoo Tech’s syndicated Business Insider article dated April 1, 2026 contains the exact two-sentence quote as written and attributes it to Todd McKinnon ("he said"), while a separate search result for the related Decoder interview shows matching context about McKinnon warning that "stuff is going to go wrong" and needing to pull an agent’s connections. ([tech.yahoo.com](https://tech.yahoo.com/cybersecurity/articles/oktas-ceo-says-ai-agents-090701920.html?utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2d ago
AI Verified Source yahoo URL returned 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirms the quote is attributed to Todd McKinnon, CEO of Okta, in the context of AI agent kill switches. The article title is "Okta's CEO says all AI agents need a kill switch." McKinnon advocates for the ability to revoke all an agent's credentials in a crisis, comparable to taking a compromised machine off the network. The vote 'for' the statement "Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment" aligns with his explicit advocacy for AI agent kill switches. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 18d ago
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