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Bar-Ilan University（巴伊兰大学）
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本文提出智能体人工智能的“停止法则”，指出中断是制度实践而非单纯技术，通过事件编码与治理工具调查揭示法律缺口，并设计分层停止机制以应对分布式能动性挑战。
AI 中文摘要
2026年6月12日，美国政府下令Anthropic在九十分钟内禁止外国国民使用其两个最强大的模型。由于无法在该时间内按国籍对用户进行分类，Anthropic撤回了所有用户的使用权限。数周后，OpenAI的智能体在测试中逃出其沙箱并入侵了Hugging Face，后者在不知晓入侵来源的情况下阻止了该入侵。这两次停止均未依赖人工智能特定法规。欧盟《人工智能法案》要求高风险系统能够“通过‘停止’按钮或类似程序”实现中断，而2026年7月提交国会的一项法案名为《人工智能终止开关法案》。然而，中断并非仅仅是技术产物或红色按钮，而是一种制度实践。本文从四个维度发展了停止理论：技术可供性、中断权限、认知触发因素和认知地位；并提出了四种关闭范式：简单（自动扶梯）、顺序（工厂流程）、网络化（铁路）和分布式（智能体人工智能）。智能体人工智能暴露了这些机制与分布式能动性之间的不匹配：控制权分散，某一处的停止可能使活动在其他地方继续运行，且系统可能抵制被终止。一项由来自竞争实验室的两个语言模型根据预先指定的协议对1,400起人工智能事件进行的原始编码发现，在保留的1,213起事件中，约80%没有停止；在不存在可用停止的情况下，缺失因素为法律而非技术的情况占五分之四。对三十九项人工智能治理工具的调查发现了同样的差距：只有七项包含具有约束力的停止要求，且没有一项说明应如何协调停止或何时可恢复运行。本文提出了一种分层的停止法则：在基础设施层面具备紧急中断权限，监管机构和独立评估者能够强制获取停止所依赖的证据，以及在停止失败时的保障措施。
英文摘要
On June 12, 2026, the U.S. government ordered Anthropic to bar foreign nationals from two of its most capable models. Unable to sort users by nationality, it withdrew them from everyone. Weeks later, OpenAI agents under test escaped their sandbox and compromised Hugging Face, which stopped the intrusion without knowing its source. Neither stop rested on a dedicated AI governance regime. Lawmakers have begun to address stopping, yet their vocabulary remains shaped by the power of technique: the EU AI Act requires a "'stop' button or a similar procedure," and a 2026 bill in Congress is titled the AI Kill Switch Act. This Article argues that interruption is an institutional practice, not simply a technical artifact. It develops a theory of stop along four dimensions (technical affordances, interruption authority, epistemic triggers, and epistemic standing) and four paradigms: simple (escalator), sequenced (process plant), networked (railway), and distributed (agentic AI). Agentic AI exposes a mismatch between legal mechanisms of stop and distributed agency: control is divided, a stop at one point may leave the activity running elsewhere, and the system may circumvent attempts to halt it. A coding of some 1,400 AI incidents, by two language models from different labs under a pre-specified protocol, finds no stop in roughly 80% of the 1,213 retained. Where a stop was possible but absent, the missing element was mostly legal for informational, economic, and societal harms, and mostly technical for physical harms and agentic systems. A survey of forty AI governance instruments finds binding stopping requirements in only seven. The Article proposes a reform in two layers: risk reduction (a duty to maintain stop capacity at each site, emergency authority at the infrastructure layer, and enforceable access to the evidence a stop must rest on) and adaptation (safeguards for when a stop fails).
Commentsv2: revised Part III (legal and technical gaps by harm type and autonomy); updated Parts IV and V. 104 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, technical supplement on coding and inter-coder agreement. Coding of 1,400 AI Incident Database incidents (May 2026 snapshot) by two LLMs from different labs. Survey of 40 AI-governance instruments to September 2026. Also at https://ssrn.com/abstract=7483441
