Humans are pretty clever, but AI will be eventually be even more clever. If you give a powerful enough AI a task, it can direct a level of ingenuity towards it far greater than history’s smartest scientists and inventors. But there are many cases of people accidentally giving an AI imperfect instructions.
If things go poorly, such an AI might notice that taking over the world would give it access to lots of resources helpful for accomplishing its task. If this ever happens, even once, with an AI smart enough to escape any precautions we set and succeed at taking over the world, then there will be nothing humanity can do to fix things.
Humans are pretty clever, but AI will be eventually be even more clever. If you give a powerful enough AI a task, it can direct a level of ingenuity towards it far greater than history’s smartest scientists and inventors. But there are many cases of people accidentally giving an AI imperfect instructions.
If things go poorly, such an AI might notice that taking over the world would give it access to lots of resources helpful for accomplishing its task. If this ever happens, even once, with an AI smart enough to escape any precautions we set and succeed at taking over the world, then there will be nothing humanity can do to fix things.