OpenAI building automated shutdown capabilities — but who guards the kill switch?
VraserX · x · 2026-09-06
OpenAI says it's building automated shutdown capabilities. The author raises key questions: who can trigger them, on what evidence, and what recourse exists after a wrongful shutdown? A kill switch needs safeguards against the people holding it, too.
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