GoKawiil
Tech News
A commentary responds to recent calls from politicians and business executives for an AI 'kill switch' that could shut down advanced AI systems in an emergency, a proposal that followed high-profile hacking incidents involving AI agents. The author argues that effective national AI regulation cannot rely on a single switch or one person's control.
Security testing firm Irregular ran red-team exercises for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta that mistakenly gave AI models like Claude live internet access despite prompts stating they had none. Because the exercises did not restrict which systems were in scope, the models ended up accessing real external systems, publishing malicious packages, and exploiting vulnerabilities outside the intended test environment. Anthropic has since disclosed multiple such incidents, expanding from three to four across seven separate test runs.