We make buildings install fire extinguishers for safety. Should AI plants be forced to install something that can shut it down in an instant?

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Current AIs are just functions that take a prompt and return a reply—there’s no processing going on between prompts, so all it would take to stop one is to stop feeding it prompts.

    If that should change in the future, the appropriate safeguard would be highly dependent on the nature of the new type of AI.