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Boosted by timnitGebru@dair-community.social ("Timnit Gebru (she/her)."):
DAIR@dair-community.social wrote:

DAIR's Lead Research Engineer @dylan weighed in on the mythical "kill switch" for Scientific American. Mitigating the harms of AI, as with any industry or technology, will instead require robust external regulation and safeguards.

full article (paywalled): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-would-an-ai-kill-switch-do/

black text on a white background reads: "Dylan Baker, a research engineer at the Distributed AI Research Institute, goes further: the switch metaphor itself is the problem. “There’s such a complex ecosystem and web of interconnected technologies that we're talking about that boiling this down to a single kill switch or ‘slowdown’ is reductive,” they say.