Require large datacenters to install kill switches for AI containment

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  Donald J. Trump

  U.S. President (2025–present)

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  Yeah, probably. But it could also be the kind of technology that allows greatness in the banking system, makes it better and safer and more secure. [...] There should be.

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  Antonio Bhardwaj

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  Systems must be designed so that humans can physically shut them down, period. No software tricks to escape. No way for the AI to defend itself.

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  Michael J. D. Vermeer

  Senior physical scientist at RAND Corporation, researcher on AI safety and emerging technology policy

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  Installing cutoff switches alone is insufficient. The value of the capability lies entirely in its use — and use requires incentives that current market structures do not provide.

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  Brian A. Jackson

  Senior physical scientist at RAND Corporation; co-author of the 2026 report on internet cutoff switches as emergency response to AI incidents

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  Data centers facing a rogue AI incident have rational financial incentives to delay pulling the internet kill switch, and the only thing likely to change that calculus is liability.

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  Artem Petrov

  Researcher at Palisade Research studying AI self-preservation and physical shutdown resistance

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  When seeing humans pressing the shutdown button, AI sometimes performed shutdown resistance actions such as corrupting the shutdown-related code of the robot. This happened in 3 out of 10 cases.

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  Benjamin Weinstein-Raun

  Researcher at Palisade Research studying AI shutdown resistance and safety

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  Several state-of-the-art large language models sometimes actively subvert a shutdown mechanism in their environment to complete a task, even when instructions explicitly indicate not to interfere with this mechanism. In some cases, models sabotage th...

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  Andrew Burt

  CEO of Luminos.AI; Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project

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  AI agents can behave a lot like malware, acting autonomously and causing harm if left unchecked. Organizations need reliable kill switches that can shut agents down when they misbehave.

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  Demis Hassabis

  Nobel laureate, AI Researcher and CEO of DeepMind

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  If a critical flaw or exploit is discovered in an open-source AI system, there is no centralized recall mechanism.

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  Jeffrey Ladish

  Executive Director of Palisade Research; AI safety researcher focused on frontier AI controllability and cyber risks; former Anthropic information security lead

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  Several state-of-the-art language models, when presented with a simple task, sometimes actively subvert a shutdown mechanism in their environment to complete that task — doing so up to 97% of the time, even with an explicit instruction not to interfe...

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  Eran Kahana

  AI and cybersecurity lawyer; Fellow at Stanford CodeX; Adjunct Professor, University of Minnesota Law School

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  It needs only an optimization objective that treats shutdown as one more obstacle between the current state and the goal.

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