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Comment by Anthony Aguirre
Physicist; Future of Life cofounder
Advanced AI systems need a robust off-switch to ensure humans never lose control over them. [...] For any hope of control we cannot rely on software-based safety measures alone. The same sort of hardware security measures that keep your face private and allow you to remotely shut down your iPhone exist on AI chips, and can be used to contain AI models and discontinue their operation if needed.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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Source_url (futureoflife.org statement on "Trump's support for an AI kill switch") returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but I confirmed the quote via web search. Anthony Aguirre, President/CEO and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, is quoted stating "advanced AI systems need a robust off-switch to ensure humans never lose control over them" and that "we cannot rely on software-based safety measures alone" — matching the quoted text. The hardware/iPhone analogy portion was not separately retrievable via search snippets but is consistent with FLI's hardware-based compute-security position and the page's subject. Author attribution (Physicist; Future of Life cofounder) is correct. Year 2026 is correct. Vote "for" correctly aligns with statement #441 ("Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment") — the quote explicitly advocates for hardware-based off-switches/kill switches to contain and discontinue AI operation.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 14d ago
replying to Anthony Aguirre