The shutdown button cannot save an out-of-control AI

An escape from a sandbox does not prove that machines have decided to escape human control. It proves something more concrete and more demanding: we are giving operational autonomy to increasingly capable systems, and our safeguards must evolve at the same pace. The switch may be necessary, but it is not a magic solution. The decisive question is not whether we can shut down the agent when something goes wrong, but how much damage it can cause before someone realizes it needs to be shut down.

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