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So no more problem if it kills you! But what if it kills you and destroys itself in the process?
Or more mundanely, if it achieves a button-press by other means, such as causing a building to collapse on you, with a brick landing on the button.
The answer to that depends on how the time machine inside works. If it's based on a "reset unless a message from the future is received saying not to" sort of deal, then you're fine. Otherwise, you die. And neither situation has an analoge in the related AI design.