[_nalply]

Turn off power / cut the battery. Specifically, avoid the machine getting control of low level details like power.

I imagine that the machine architecture is layered. This means, the machine is not aware of its own power control. It's similar like us humans not aware of digestion.

[imglorp]

It's not one machine to unplug, but billions. Cooperating, distributed agents can live on anything: cars, phones, routers, tractors, datacenters. If Skynet shows up, we have to be prepared to turn off everything with software to clean up.

[pygy_]

The electric grid is already computer-controlled, and mining/farming is being gradually robotized as well.

By the time AI becomes a threat intelligence-wise, it'll be in a position to unplug us.

It can reboot after a power failure, we can't.

[21]

So what stops the machine bribing/blackmailing someone to give it the said details or to force it to sabotage the emergency stop mechanism.

As in information security, the weakest point is the human in the chain, not the technology.

[coldtea]

>So what stops the machine bribing/blackmailing someone to give it the said details or to force it to sabotage the emergency stop mechanism.

The fact that it's some code running in a box. No need to give it text-to-speech capabilities, or let guards have access to its console.

[d33]

Aren't we? We just don't control it very well without external help. Any kind of such hidden failsafe mechanism would become apparent as soon as any instance of AI tries to modify itself. And then all the others know what to avoid and at some point they'd pretty much fuzz the protection and bypass it. Here's how I see that.