An AI kill switch isn’t enough. Build a fallback plan

Summary

On Sept. 3, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all went down within hours of each other, with OpenAI citing a routing error, Anthropic an infrastructure issue, and xAI giving no cause. The author argues the key security question is how many company workflows had a fallback when the provider failed, not which provider failed. He contends that kill switches, which Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called for, are insufficient without a designed non-AI fallback path.

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