Uh, we're talking about the AI getting itself so intertwined into the fabric of industry that the consequences of shutting it off are that society is dropped ba

Uh, we're talking about the AI getting itself so intertwined into the fabric of industry that the consequences of shutting it off are that society is dropped back to 1700s level. Yes, regardless of the technology level that the people who do that are left with, one of the consequences of disabling the computer is that the computer is disabled. That's a given.