Google Is Building a Big Red Button to Stop the Robot Apocalypse

Just last week Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed that he was only worried about the work of one AI company, which many read to be Google. Musk and his fellow worriers should feel a little more at ease to know that Google and DeepMind are thinking about ways to ensure full human control. In an academic paper, DeepMind's Laurent Orseau and Stuart Armstrong of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford have established a framework for interrupting an AI's course of action. "Now and then it may be necessary for a human operator to press the big red button to prevent the agent from continuing a harmful sequence of actions," reads the paper. Of course, this isn't much use if the clever-clogs AI (shall we just call it Skynet?)