panic button
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This week’s software-stock selloff feels like the latest reason to reach for the career panic button, unless you happen to be an artificial-intelligence developer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
“It’s too early to be hitting the panic button yet,” says Daniel Kritenbrink, a partner at the consultancy The Asia Group and previously the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
From Barron's ● Nov. 17, 2025
Now Anthropic has provided one bot with a panic button just in case.
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2025
She explained that in addition to her personal panic button she also had similar in the bedrooms of her constituency home.
From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2024
My fingers brushed again something hard and smooth in my pocket, and I didn’t need to pull it out to know that it was the panic button.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
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