# AI Shutdown Control **Entity class:** Governance mechanism **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Safety **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition An AI shutdown control is a mechanism that allows authorized humans or systems to halt an AI process, revoke access, isolate infrastructure, or terminate deployment. ## Mechanism and significance A credible control must address distributed copies, delegated agents, credentials, state persistence, and incentives to bypass the shutdown path. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#AI Control, Law, and Alignment|AI Control, Law, and Alignment]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI Control]] · [[AI Safety]] · [[AI Infrastructure Consent]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Recursive-AI Prohibition]] · [[Mandatory AI Containment]] · [[Embedded Government AI Auditor]] · [[Algorithmic-Prohibition Enforceability]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.