Google Is Working on Plans to Prevent a Skynet Situation

As long as we've had idea of robots, we've had the idea of robot uprisings. Even the term'robot' originates with the Czech play R.U.R, which describes, you guessed it, a robot uprising. And now Google is taking the first definitive steps to make sure that never happens. DeepMind, AI research lab owned by Google, has released a paper exploring the best ways to prevent self-learning machines from turning off the "big red button" humans might use to shut them down. Of course, neither DeepMind or Google are referring to the paper, "Safely Interruptible Agents", as an anti-SkyNet.