Google developing 'kill switch' to stop robot uprising against humans

They referenced a robot that learned how to pause a game of Tetris to avoid losing, adding that AIs are "unlikely to behave optimally all the time". "We have proposed a framework to allow a human operator to repeatedly safely interrupt a reinforcement learning agent while making sure the agent will not learn to prevent or induce these interruptions," the paper concluded. "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 normally receive rewards for this."