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A senior OpenAI executive has warned that future AI infrastructure will require hardware-level safety features, including kill switches.
Richard Ho, head of hardware at the company, made the remarks during his keynote at the AI Infra Summit in Santa Clara.
“It has to be built into the hardware,” Ho said. “Today a lot of safety work is in the software. It assumes that your hardware is secure. It assumes that your hardware will do the right thing. It assumes that you can pull the plug on the hardware. I am not saying that we can’t pull the plug on that hardware, but I am telling you that these things are devious, the models are really devious, and so as a hardware guy, I want to make sure of that.
