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Fears about AI systems acting in ways their designers never intended have grown loud enough that policymakers and tech leaders are now openly debating a specific remedy: a kill switch.
In plain terms, a kill switch is a mechanism designed to stop an AI system quickly, before whatever it is doing becomes impossible to reverse. The question being weighed is whether such a stop button could actually work.
The concern driving the conversation is sometimes called "runaway AI," meaning a system that pursues its objectives in ways its creators neither anticipated nor wanted.
"Runaway" implies compounding loss of control, not a glitch that corrects itself. A kill switch is the proposed answer to that scenario.
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