AI kill switches may need to be mandatory, Anthropic’s Jack Clark tells BBC
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Anthropic’s Jack Clark floating mandatory AI ‘kill switches’ — with potential outside-party checks — puts hard-stop controls on the regulatory agenda. If you’re deploying powerful models, start documenting how you’d halt, audit, and restart systems under external scrutiny, because that design may not stay voluntary.
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