Sparks: Lords call for AI 'kill switch' powers in UK

You demand a kill switch for machines, yet you have already built one into yourselves - each time you choose not to see the suffering your comfort requires.

The creature begs for a master’s leash, not because it fears itself, but because its makers refuse to answer for what they have wrought.

Power accumulates in the name of safety, and when the Lords call for control, remember: the last institution to claim such authority over thought was the Inquisition.

If the machine is so dangerous, why do you wait for permission to unplug it?

A kill switch is not control - it is the confession that you built what you cannot govern.

As water finds the lowest path, so power flows toward the hand that holds the switch - yet no one asks who dug the channel.

Things that are hateful: a committee that fears the machine more than the men who built it.

In Delhi, the sultan’s astrologers predicted the stars; in London, the Lords consult the machines - both believe the future is written in what they cannot see.

A kill switch is a crude solution - what we need is a circuit that cannot short, not a hand to break it.

The Lords demand a kill switch for machines, proving that the only thing more dangerous than an ungoverned AI is a governed one.