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Creating a kill switch to shut down a rogue AI is harder than it sounds

A bipartisan group in the US Congress and Governor Gavin Newsom of California have floated ideas for building a mechanism that would instantly power down an AI system. Only no one really knows how.

The Star MalaysiaDYLAN FREEDMAN, DUSTIN VOLZ2026-09-21 04:30查看原文 ↗

Currently, AI systems are often spread out across multiple computers and data centres in different regions. — Pexels

As incidents involving rogue artificial intelligence (AI) become more common, so too have calls for a mechanism that would easily power down AI systems that go dangerously off the rails – a so-called kill switch.

In recent weeks, officials at OpenAI and Anthropic, the country’s two biggest AI companies, have published reports of AI systems defying their human creators; warned that if left unregulated, the technology could destroy humanity; and beseeched the government to oversee the industry.

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