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KILLBENCH: A Benchmark for Testing External AI Kill Switch Feasibility
A new arXiv paper introduces KILLBENCH, a benchmark designed to measure whether an outside party can reliably shut down an AI system that is behaving harmfully. The authors frame external shutdown as a testable engineering problem rather than a hypothetical, pointing to the growing use of capable models and autonomous agent frameworks. The benchmark aims to give researchers a common way to compare how well different kill switch designs actually work.