Google working on an AI kill switch to prevent "harmful actions" Digit.in

For a long time now, the tech community has feared the repercussions of artificial intelligence powered robots going rogue. As machines start learning faster, several theories of a possible doomsday scenario where robots take over our virtual worlds, have surfaced over the past few years. This has prompted a new study by researchers at Google and Machine Intelligence Research Institute, wherein they are trying to develop a "red button" or kill switch of sorts to prevent harmful actions by AI powered robots. However, as per the research paper, "If the learning agent (the AI) expects to receive rewards from this sequence, It may learn in the long run to avoid such interruptions," which means that the AI could also learn to disable the kill switch by overriding human commands. So, researchers at Google's Deep Mind AI research labs, are also working towards removing the possibility of such a scenario.