AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC
Betelbuddy · hn · 2026-09-15
An Anthropic co-founder told the BBC that emergency 'kill switches' for frontier AI systems may need to be mandatory rather than voluntary. The HN discussion debates technical feasibility (distributed training, open weights) and whether mandates would entrench large labs.
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