• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Damn if only we had some way to you know turn off electricity to a device. A switch of some sort.

    I already pointed this out in the thread, scroll down. The idea of a kill switch makes no sense. If the decision is made that some tech is dangerous it will be made by the owner or the government. In either case it will be a political/legal decision not a technical one. And you don’t need a kill switch for something that someone actively needs to pump resources into. All you need to do is turn it off.

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      2 months ago

      there’s a whole lot of discussion around this already, going on for years now. an AI that was generally smarter than humans would probably be able to do things undetected by users.

      it could also be operated by a malicious user. or escape its container by writing code.