We make buildings install fire extinguishers for safety. Should AI plants be forced to install something that can shut it down in an instant?
We make buildings install fire extinguishers for safety. Should AI plants be forced to install something that can shut it down in an instant?
We have them. Any fire in a data hall triggers the automatic electrical cutoff. Sprinklers and 30kw/sqft mix rather violently. Failures involve smoking craters. There are also large red buttons by the doors. Hit it to cut all power to the room - and end your career - but you *might make it out of the building alive in a fire.
Except datacentres don’t use water suppression, rather they use gas suppression. It can still fuck up hardware, just no where near as much as water does.
So the whole thing is wiped out?
Wiped, no. Just off. Like pulling the plug on your PC.
Well if AI gets out of control we would want to wipe it not just shut it down.
No. We want to disarm/disable it instantly, but then we want to find out what went wrong.
Btw the shutdown of one server room does not disable most services, bc they are built with redundancy.
I’d like to think we would learn from our mistakes and start over with the past in mind. Hahahaha
Yes, that’s why you’d want the data center and its data intact. To learn from it and restart it without whatever bug or misalignment required you to shut it down.