Tech leaders say a kill switch won't be enough to stop rogue superintelligent AI

An emergency kill switch for AI might not be the panacea some policymakers are hoping for.

Sven Hoppe/picture alliance via Getty Images The idea of a kill switch to stop rogue AI is gaining momentum in Congress as fears grow.

But AI leaders say it may not be the magic bullet that some policymakers are hoping for.

An emergency failsafe isn't a "panacea," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.

AI goes out of control .

It's launching a devastating cyberattack.

Flip a kill switch, and the AI goes offline.

Problem solved.

Or is it? AI leaders and researchers say a kill switch may not be the silver bullet some policymakers are hoping for.

"I don't think it'll work in the long run," Geoffrey Hinton, the computer scientist known as the "godfather of AI," told CNN on Thursday.

"When it's superintelligent, it'll be much better than people," he added.

"So it will be able to persuade the people in charge of the switch not to pull the switch ." It comes as researchers and executives have warned about powerful AI one day posing an existential threat to humanity.

The debate reached Capitol Hill on Wednesday, when Sen.

Rand Paul blocked a bill from Sen.