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Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs
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this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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"Kill switch" – oh the drama. Let's call every simple toggle 'kill switch' from now on.
“Firefox is including an AI murder switch so that heartless users can take the life of our helpful little robot guy who just wants to see you happy. We added it because not everybody is a good person.” -Mozilla CEO.
THERE'S A PHYSICAL KILL SWITCH FOR TYPING IN ALL CAPS ON MY KEYBOARD, BUT I HAVEN'T ACTIVATED IT YET.
i have a violently execute switch in my room (it toggles the lamp on or off)
For it to be a kill switch it would have to actually terminate a rogue AI.
Yeah, call me when Firefox creates terminators that infiltrate and destroy data centers and then themselves.
What's worse....you could always toggle it. In fact, you could re-route it to your own local LLM.
Drama drama cheesecake drama
Tablet brick potato drama
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