[theptip]

A sufficiently intelligent system that is un-aligned can likely subvert a human operator if it wants to.

But even if we ignore that, note that nobody is building their systems this way, and nor will they without extremely draconian laws requiring it. An airgapped system is substantially less valuable than one that is connected to the outside world.

I take the question “why can’t we turn it off” to refer to the actual real systems that we have built and will continue to build, not hypothetical systems we might build if we took safety risks very seriously.