AI Kill Switches May Need to Be Mandatory, Anthropic’s Jack Clark Tells BBC

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that legislators may make AI kill switches mandatory and third-party verifiable. Anthropic has already agreed to allow external auditors, including METR, within weeks.

• Clark: AI kill switches may become mandatory and externally verifiable
• Anthropic to allow third-party auditors, including METR, in coming weeks
• Kill Switch Act proposed in the US; UK rejected the idea
• Clark: Chinese models lag Western ones by 6–12 months