Naive Solution to Controlling Superintelligent AI

"Controlling an AI species 1000x smarter and more powerful than us will be easy, we'll just [solution]."
Their solution:

This meme satirizes the naive belief that controlling a hypothetical superintelligent AI, which is 1000 times smarter and more powerful than humans, will be a simple task. The top text presents the common overconfident claim that an easy solution exists for controlling superintelligent AI. Below that, the punchline shows a photograph of a door being 'locked' with a single flimsy Cheeto, a puffed corn snack, looped through the lock mechanism and door handle, an extremely ineffective barrier that could be broken with minimal effort. The joke draws a parallel between this useless Cheeto lock and the underdeveloped, short-sighted solutions often proposed for AI control, such as the idea that you can simply turn off a superintelligent AI if it becomes uncooperative, ignoring that an entity that powerful would easily circumvent such basic measures.

This meme was originally shared on Reddit as an AI/tech humor post, with the original title 'JuSt tUrN iT oFf 🤪'. It jokes at the common dismissive argument that AI safety concerns are unfounded because humans could just shut down a problematic superintelligent AI, mocking how insufficient that solution would be against an entity exponentially more intelligent than humans. It spread widely across social media platforms as part of broader online discourse around AI development and AI safety in the mid-2020s.