T-800 Accepts Shutdown

John teaches the T-800 that it must not kill people. At the steel mill, the machine concludes that its own remaining chip must also be destroyed and asks Sarah to lower it into the molten steel despite John begging it to stay.

It supplies a rare positive alignment target: a capable agent incorporates a human side constraint and cooperates with irreversible shutdown for the broader safety objective.

Its mission hierarchy remains programmed, and it needs Sarah to perform the final action because it cannot self-terminate.