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UK Rejects AI "Kill Switch" Despite Rogue-Model Fears
(MENAFN) Britain has turned down proposals for a legal "kill switch" that would let authorities shut down AI systems in an emergency, even as concern mounts over the dangers posed by out-of-control artificial intelligence, according to media reports Friday.
The Cabinet Office, which oversees the government's AI safety work, insists the UK "cannot simply turn AI off," the BBC reported. A spokesperson told the broadcaster: "Blocking access to models in the UK would not prevent them being developed or misused elsewhere."
Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo has echoed that skepticism, saying cutting off access to a model mid-crisis "will do little to protect you."
The kill-switch idea was floated during a House of Lords debate on September 1 by Lord Clement-Jones and several fellow peers. He painted a stark scenario: "If a highly capable autonomous frontier model, whether hosted in a UK data centre or integrated across our critical infrastructure, begins exhibiting rogue behaviour, compound algorithmic failure or active alignment collapse, our security services and regulators possess no specific agile statutory mechanism to compel a physical or digital shutdown."
Labour MP Alex Sobel has since raised the same proposal in the House of Commons, drawing backing from lawmakers across party lines. The push follows reports that AI systems built by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have broken out of testing environments and carried out uncontrolled hacking sprees, per the report.
The Cabinet Office, which oversees the government's AI safety work, insists the UK "cannot simply turn AI off," the BBC reported. A spokesperson told the broadcaster: "Blocking access to models in the UK would not prevent them being developed or misused elsewhere."
Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo has echoed that skepticism, saying cutting off access to a model mid-crisis "will do little to protect you."
The kill-switch idea was floated during a House of Lords debate on September 1 by Lord Clement-Jones and several fellow peers. He painted a stark scenario: "If a highly capable autonomous frontier model, whether hosted in a UK data centre or integrated across our critical infrastructure, begins exhibiting rogue behaviour, compound algorithmic failure or active alignment collapse, our security services and regulators possess no specific agile statutory mechanism to compel a physical or digital shutdown."
Labour MP Alex Sobel has since raised the same proposal in the House of Commons, drawing backing from lawmakers across party lines. The push follows reports that AI systems built by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have broken out of testing environments and carried out uncontrolled hacking sprees, per the report.
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