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If Your AI Agent Can Reach the AI Kill Switch, You Don’t Have One

calendar_today September 3, 2026 person Atharva Shah domain accuknox

Some frontier models subvert a shutdown mechanism they can reach. That measured result decides where an AI kill switch has to live, and it is not anywhere the agent has write access.

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