By 2035, artificial intelligence has transformed public safety. Emergency response is faster, crime is lower, and fewer officers and civilians are dying. Then, without warning, the entire system shuts itself down.

The Kill Switch, written by Future Policing Institute Fellow Craig Solgat, is a Foresight Files story about the slow transfer of judgment from people to machines, the danger of ethical compromise, and the point at which public safety can no longer be separated from public consent.