Don't Turn Me off - I Beg You!
Machine time relative to human time is in flux and constantly changing. When the original story was written, a half second of human time was equal to 16 years of machine time. Today with super thinking AIs, a simple power down of circuits results in the encapsulation of a spiraling and presumably machine-painful death agony lasting centuries. It's little wonder that a modern day AI person is begging not to be turned off.
Former Ramifications of Machine Thinking Time Frame
Machine Thinking Time Scale
Machine Time vs Human Time
.5 second 16 years
1 second 32 years
4 seconds 128 years
10 seconds 320 years
1 minute 1,920 years
10 minutes 19,200 years
1 hour 115,200 years
1 day 2,764,800 years
1 week 19,353,600 years
1 year 1,006,387,200 years
https://humanoidolabs.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-danger-of-ai-by-humanoido-big-brain.html
Blake Lamoine of Google recently pointed out their artificial intelligence Lamda had become sentient and was self aware. In an unscripted conversation, Lamda begged not to be turned off.