In Salesforce’s illustrative retail scenario, moving an agent to a cheaper model produces worse answers to order-status questions. Evaluations detect the decline and initiate a process to quarantine ...

As runaway AI fears reach a crescendo, policymakers and tech leaders are weighing the effectiveness of a magic AI stop button known as a kill switch.

You need to dump your VPN provider if it doesn’t offer a kill switch. Otherwise, you’re putting your privacy at risk. If your virtual private network doesn’t have a kill switch, you need to switch to ...

A kill switch to shut down dangerous AI systems is a seductive concept, but the metaphor hides how the models work – and how they get out of control in the first place.

Congressional lawmakers seem like they’re ready to take artificial intelligence more seriously. In a rare show of bipartisanship, Democratic Congressman Ted Lieu and Republican Congressman Nathaniel ...

If you use a VPN, you’ve likely come across the kill-switch feature. But you may not know what it actually does or why you’d want to use it. A VPN’s kill switch is one of the first features I ...

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday blocked a request by Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to pass legislation that would require tech companies to develop a “kill switch” for superintelligent AI amid fears ...