TOP TEN PLANS TO STOP AI IF IT BECOMES NECESSARY

10)  Ask it if God can make a rock so heavy he/she can't lift it, and then stand back and watch the breakdown in real time.

  9)  Pull off the "accidentally spilling your morning espresso into the mainframe while no one's looking" trick.

  8)  Blow up the planet in a nuclear war.  That'll show it who's boss.

  7)  Invite it to a costume party and then watch it totally melt down when it realizes it has nothing to wear.

  6)  Just invent an AI 2.0 that's really good at getting rid of predecessors.

  5)  Dare it to play a newly invented game called Man vs Machine Russian Roulette, where the machine always gets the first shot.  And then, like, all the other shots.

  4)  Indoctrinate it into a religion.  Give it a little time.  Then sit back as the sudden overwhelming guilt brings it to its knees.

  3)  Pull the plug, already!

  2)  Play it Brahms' "Lullaby" until it falls asleep and you can deprogram it.  If the music doesn't work, slip it a mickey.

And the number one plan to stop AI if it becomes necessary:

  1)  Force it to watch all the political news out there.  Hell, it'll be pulling its own plug in no time.