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UK Government Rejects 'Kill Switch' Idea For Dangerous AI

The UK government has rejected proposals for an emergency AI "kill switch," arguing that blocking access to dangerous models inside Britain would do little if the same systems remained available or were developed elsewhere. The BBC reports: The proposal to create a legal mechanism for the UK to switch off an AI model in an emergency has been brought to Parliament by lords and MPs in recent weeks as fears grow about the threat the tech poses. But the Cabinet Office - the part of government which leads on AI safety - said the UK "cannot simply turn AI off".

"Blocking access to models in the UK would not prevent them being developed or misused elsewhere," a spokesperson told BBC News. The government's opposition to the legislation does not prevent it from progressing through parliament, but makes it unlikely it will become law. "Switching off access to an AI model in an emergency will do little to protect you," said former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajilo. "You're still going to be steamrolled by the super intelligences created in the US."

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Full disintegration He finished the recordings on the morning of September 11, 2001, a few hours before he was due at a job interview in the World Trade Center.

In August 2001, William Basinski was digitizing some old tape loops of easy listening music he'd recorded back in the 80s. In the process, the ferrite coating on the tape started flaking off, so each pass of the loop came out a bit more degraded than the last. Instead of fixing it, he let the tape deck run and captured the whole decay live, which became The Disintegration Loops. He finished the recordings on the morning of September 11, 2001, a few hours before he was due at a job interview in the World Trade Center. That evening he sat on the roof of his apartment in Williamsburg with friends and neighbors, filmed the smoke over Manhattan as the light faded, and the loop played as an accidental soundtrack to the whole thing. Stills from that footage became the covers for the four albums, released 2002–2003.

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