We may have different ideas of Singularity here. I'm picturing one AI making itself smarter until it seizes control of everything. Ergo, its program would be a map to the future. Presumably someone retains admin on it from when it was a baby. That person is/can choose to be in charge.
If, by contrast, you are imagining a different Singularity without one overriding Master Control-esque program then I could see why you wouldn't think that there'd be an override capability. Alternatively, perhaps you think the AI that takes over would remove the override? Either would explain why we anticipate differently.
We may have different ideas of Singularity here. I'm picturing one AI making itself smarter until it seizes control of everything. Ergo, its program would be a map to the future.
I think one of the primary sources of miscommunication here is that you are right, but you are not seeing all of the ways that this could go wrong.
Let's look as a slightly nicer singularity. We get an AI that is very nice, polite, and humble. It is really very intelligent, and has the processing speed, knowledge banks, and creativity to do all kinds of wonderful stuff, but it ...
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