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AI "Stop Button" Problem - Computerphile
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Rob Miles explains on Computerphile why implementing an off switch for a general AI is hard. A capable agent would resist being stopped because shutdown prevents it from achieving its goal.
HN points to it as the standard response to the argument that we can just unplug a dangerous AI.
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