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UK Government rejects call for ‘kill switch’ to stop attack by rogue AI: The UK ‘cannot simply turn AI off,’ the Cabinet Office said on Friday.

Key FactsGovernment rejects AI kill switch amid rising safety concerns

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Earlier in September, Liberal Democrat Lord Clement-Jones proposed an amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill allowing state intervention if a model malfunctioned.

Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger put his personal estimate of AI killing all humans within the next decade above 10%.

On Friday, the government rejected a new emergency power and said Britain could not simply turn AI off.

The government is examining further targeted measures for the technology’s greatest risks, but stresses they would need to be proportionate.

The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.
— Jacob Coxon, in his resignation statement criticizing Anthropic/OpenAI and warning about AI risks

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