"Don't worry, the AI won't have outages because the AI will be used to keep the AI online."

The actor pattern exists for this reason - it's not like AI is a singular thing checking itself - you could easily have 1000 instances with supervisors automatically rotating out unhealthy instances so that the system is self-repairing even if instances can fail.

Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_Stops

Never knew E.M. Forster did science fiction too.

English author better known for the novels "A Room with a View" (1908), "Howards End" (1910) and "A Passage to India" (1924).

Yo dawg I heard you like AI so I have AI maintaining your AI so you can always AI while you AI.

Perhaps true, but internet outages and power outages will have the same effect. If I lose either, I lose access to a remote AI.

What is a fusion reactor but another, tiny, sun?

I like that we're just calling any form of infrastructure automation AI now.