Google is currently working on a “kill switch” for the the terrifying possibility that the world’s robots and algorithms stop listening to us.
Google’s Deep Mind team recently published a paper, detailing its work and how it would stop “a Skynet scenario” from happening.
The framework revolves around an AI from learning how to prevent – or induce – human interruption of whatever it’s doing.
“Safe interruptibility can be useful to take control of a robot that is misbehaving and may lead to irreversible consequences, or to take it out of a delicate situation, or even to temporarily use it to achieve a task it did not learn to perform or would not necessarily receive rewards for this”.
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