We've raised AI just like we raised some children

A couple of weeks ago I wrote that fears that "AI will kill us" are exagerated, being fears about something that "literally ceases to exist the moment anyone pulls the plug off the computers it runs on. AI itself cannot "kill" anything more real than avatars in some simulation. AI is the most vulnerable, helpless thing ever." By pure chance, yesterday I found a post discussing exactly "why we can't just unplug it: by the time we discover it is a superintelligence it will have spread itself across many computers and built deep and hard defenses for these. That could happen for example by manipulating humans into thinking they are building defenses for a completely different reason."