One way to do this would be to build a program that would simulate superintelligence and to see what it did within that simulation of something similar within a single computer and to have a way to watch "in real time" this single computer being taken apart that was simulating what could be done over the internet. I'm sure the military has done something like this but it might also be an interesting project for a Graduate study in computer science of simulating just how fast a superintelligence could make and execute decisions to bring down most or all of the Internet in the U.S.
Understanding just how fast this could happen through a simulation would help people prepare for a real eventuality of something like this over time.
A nation wouldn't dare do this to another nation without expecting all out war from that nation back upon itself.
So, it would either be done by a terrorist group without a nation for the nation to take revenge upon or done by a superintelligence that arose because the programmer or programmers didn't realize exactly what they had created until it was too late to stop.
If you have ever written a program in any language you understand just how fast even a home computer can execute decisions once a person makes the decision for a computer to execute a decision tree.
So, the speed at which all this would occur is beyond any one person's ability to stop unless they knew about it coming beforehand.
And theoretically, it is unknown when this can or will happen.
However, I would say it is not If but only When it happens given all things in place the way they are now here on earth.
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