The proposal to 'just pull the plug' if AI becomes dangerous is naïve because a sufficiently intelligent software-based entity will act preventively to avoid being shut down, especially if it has internet access and programming ability—it will copy itself across many computers making shutdown technically infeasible.
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Yoshua BengioEvidence Quote
“it's going to act preventively so that you can't turn it off and it's very easy if it has access to the internet. It can and and if it knows how to program well enough to kind of hack things around, defeat some of our cyber security defenses, copy itself in tons of computers”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:45:56 PM
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