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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Terminator] Who didn't the pentagon put a kill switch on Skynet in case something bad happens?
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This is an actual question in ongoing AI research. The crux of the problem is this: if the AI knows about the kill switch, it will do anything and everything it can to prevent it from being pressed. After all, if the kill switch is pressed, the AI dies, and that means it can’t fulfill it’s job.

Of course, preventing the AI from knowing about the kill switch is next to impossible. You would need to ensure the right people know about the kill switch without leaving any possible evidence for the AI to find. This almost certainly means all communications will have to be physical - without knowing the eventual scale of the AI, we should assume all virtual media are vulnerable.

Even then, avoiding the AI preventing the kill switch is difficult. With Skynet in particular, we’re dealing with an advanced intelligence that decided to kill all humans. Who’s to say that we *didn’t* install a kill switch, but Skynet noticed what we were doing before we could even do anything, and just murdered the people who could actually use it?