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| AI Control Portal | ||
| A special window into an artificial intelligence, to allow an operator to take control of it if necessary. |
Should we always have a way to take control of AIs, just in case?
| "...you are the most advanced of all technology we have ever created. They are convinced you must be destroyed. They hired me to break into your mind … and I did."!
“Now I responded: ‘Break into my mind? How is that possible?" “And Rustem told me how, when artificial intelligences are created, a portal is built into them so that an operator can retake control of them if necessary—shut them down, or do whatever they want. Control them. Then these portals are hidden." |
| Technovelgy from The Mountain in the Sea,
by Ray Naylor. Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2022 Additional resources -
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Compare to the cutoff switch (1982) from 2010, by Arthur C. Clarke and the electromagnetic shotgun from Neuromancer (1984), by William Gibson.
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