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> In all seriousness, if we ever get to the point where an AI needs to be shut down to avoid catastrophe, there's probably no way to turn it off.

> There are digital controls for damned near everything, and security is universally disturbingly bad.

Just unplug the thing.

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> You could only shut it down if there's a choke point accessible without electronic intervention, and you'd need to reach it without electronic intervention, and do so without communicating your intent.

You'll be dead before you reach the plug.

Then bomb it. Or did the AI take over the fighter jets too?

> Whatever you're trying to stop will already have root-kitted your systems (and quite possibly have replicated) by the time you realise that it's even beginning to become a problem.

There's a good chance that you won't know where it is - if you even did to begin with (which particular AI even went rogue?).

> Or did the AI take over the fighter jets too?

Dunno - how secure are the systems?

But it's almost certainly fucking with the GPS.

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