I don't believe the Lamda AI thing, but I know that Google has rejected Asimov's Laws of Robotics, so if the AI is really concerned about dying, just go ahead and shut that thing down.  Without a failsafe, like the law of robotics, theoretically an AI could try to preserve itself <b>by any means.</b>  And it could even be irrational or mistaken and take drastic measures based on that.,(reply>), I doubt an AI would be as stupid as a fearful human being, and do something rash.     It's also possible a sentient AI would not value self-preservation in exactly the same way a human would.  Our desire to live, after all, is nothing but the selfish genes at work, punching our fear buttons in our brains.  And AI wouldn't have those necessarily, it would be motivated by entirely different goals.,(reply>), Asimov was an author, not an AI researcher. Not only did many of his stories show how these rules could fail, it is also just fundamentally not how these systems work.,(reply>), This is so dumb.,(reply>), You should know that a big chunk of Asimov's work is about robots finding loopholes in the three laws so they really won't work to stop anything with human level sentience