saturn comments on AI that doesn't want to get out - Less Wrong
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The idea of not affecting anything except this or that is a concept that only exists in fuzzy human folk ontology; physics doesn't really work that way. You would essentially be instructing the AI not to exist.
Stated in more detail here.
It's allowed to produce waste heat. I see no reason to let it make anything else. I know it can't actially cut itself off from the universe, but it shouldn't enjoy this fact.
Unfortunately it can't even limit itself to this. Every object with mass exerts a gravitational attraction on every other object, it can't help but affect the world outside through these means as well, so we have to allow it to do so, which may result in disaster for all we know. We also have to allow some radiation out, since this is also unavoidable. At this point I should point out that detonating a nuclear warhead can probably be fit into the category of "emitting waste heat and radiation".
I did mention explosions. And gravity? I don't see what it could do with gravity. Although I see that it could do something with vibration.