How to Use kill switch in a Sentence

kill switch

noun
  • There are still questions about how a kill switch would work.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Fried said this kill switch is what makes the arrangement workable.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • The account had no per-day limit, no spike alert and no kill switch (all platform defaults).
    — Andrew Siemer, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
  • An internet kill switch is not a problem only for the very online.
    — Holly Dagres, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026
  • CIOs should treat the kill switch as a backstop, not a strategy.
    — David Chou, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • The kill switch is a theory about what will happen under pressure.
    — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 1 June 2026
  • Zavery demonstrated the kill switch live on stage.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 May 2026
  • The Hugging Face breach didn’t fail because nobody built a kill switch.
    — David Chou, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • So, experts said, a kill switch needs to not only kill the main system, but all these redundancies.
    — Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 21 Sep. 2026
  • However, a kill switch only helps after something has already gone wrong.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • While underway, ensure your engine cutoff switch (aka kill switch) link is attached.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026
  • Lawmakers would still need to debate how the government verifies that a kill switch works.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Congress can mandate a kill switch, and the industry can build an alliance around open defensive tools.
    — David Chou, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • This time, however, an AI kill switch might prove far more complicated.
    — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The review should also confirm that incident history has been examined and that the kill switch still works.
    — Akhilesh Sharma, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Architects must build a central kill switch that instantly cuts off the AI if an anomaly occurs.
    — Naveen Jayaram, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
  • As a first step, policymakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress have put forward the idea of an AI kill switch.
    — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Other key steps include being able to detect that problems exist, and having strategies to mitigate them, whether using a kill switch is part of the process or not.
    — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The talking points argued that temporary pauses for security testing should not be treated as evidence of a kill switch.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • Features like an automatic kill switch and leak protection help prevent exposure if the connection drops.
    — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 5 May 2026
  • Unlike Waymo, sometimes Tesla moves that person over to the passenger seat with access to a kill switch should anything go wrong.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 21 July 2026
  • In theory, a kill switch would allow operators to stop AI agents from such harmful behaviors.
    — Laurent Belsie, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026
  • America’s attempt to calm fears of an AI kill switch may be giving foreign governments another reason to build one of their own.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
  • The order does not immediately require AI companies to install a kill switch.
    — Cecilio Padilla, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026
  • But other settings, such as kill switch and automatic connection, align with the VPN on Windows.
    — Neil J. Rubenking, PC Magazine, 24 June 2026
  • Encode what must never break—asset conservation, rate limits, access rules—directly into contracts, and add pause/kill switches that cap blast radius.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Feb. 2026
  • Full traceability of actions and decisions backed by audit logs, human-in-the-loop escalation and kill switches ensures oversight remains actionable.
    — Sumeet Agrawal, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
  • By Monday, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark floated mandatory kill switches for AI systems.
    — Peter Hall, Scientific American, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Find My, kill switches, biometric locks—every major intervention since has lived in the operating system, not on the device's exterior.
    — Antonia Bremeyer, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • An automatic kill switch helps prevent IP exposure if the connection drops, while double VPN servers add another layer of routing for sensitive tasks.
    — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 28 Apr. 2026

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