Why I built a Physical Kill-Switch Protocol for AI Safety (Open Source)

Source: Dev.to

Overview

Hi everyone, I’m Ahmed M. Abdel‑Maaboud. Like many of you, I’ve been thinking about AI safety. But I noticed a problem: we are trying to solve safety with more software. As a system architect, I believe true safety must be physical.

I’ve spent the last few hours (with some great AI collaboration for the coding parts) building AEGIS‑HARDWIRE. It’s a protocol that uses hardware logic to ensure a robot can be stopped physically, no matter how “smart” its software becomes. It’s in the early stages, and I don’t have the hardware lab to test it yet, but the logic is all there on GitHub for you to audit, fork, and improve. Let’s move the safety conversation from the “Cloud” to the “Circuit”.

Check it out here