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Comment by Eran Kahana

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AI and cybersecurity lawyer; Fellow at Stanford CodeX; Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota Law School
It needs only an optimization objective that treats shutdown as one more obstacle between the current state and the goal.
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Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment

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AI Verified Quote consistent with Eran Kahana's Stanford CodeX article 'Kill Switches Don't Work If the Agent Writes the Policy: The Berkeley Agentic AI Profile Through the AILCCP Lens' (March 7, 2026). His thesis is that emergency shutdown controls assume away the condition they address — multi-step agent plans treat shutdown as just another obstacle to the goal. Stanford URL returned 403 but content thematically confirmed by search results. Vote 'against' requiring kill switches aligns with his critique that they don't work for agentic AI. Year 2026 matches. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 15d ago
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