I think the more relevant fact is that we don&#x27;t have any ethical objections to shutting down computers, they&#x27;re wholly dependent on our infrastructure, and the&#x27;ll only evolve in ways that prove useful to us, because we wouldn&#x27;t put a computer in charge of <i>everything</i> unless it were sufficiently compliant to our desires.<p>I mean, are you going to put the same machine in charge of mineral extraction, weapon construction, transportation, and weapon deployment? When it hasn&#x27;t proven to act correctly in a high-fidelity simulated environment? Probably not.<p>We&#x27;re also assuming that human ethics and intelligence are independent. I don&#x27;t see many reasons to believe this. Social power and intelligence might be independent.