I don’t really see why it would go against “local folk beliefs”.
It’s surely widely recognised that many computers don’t literally do what their users tell them to—but instead obey a bunch of layers of system software—which may or may not have the user’s interests in mind.
As for super-intelligent machines being “literal-minded”, that would go against a long trend towards the use of higher level languages, and computers adapting to humans (rather than the other way around). Nobody is going to be aiming at a superintelligence which is autistic in this department.
I don’t really see why it would go against “local folk beliefs”.
It’s surely widely recognised that many computers don’t literally do what their users tell them to—but instead obey a bunch of layers of system software—which may or may not have the user’s interests in mind.
As for super-intelligent machines being “literal-minded”, that would go against a long trend towards the use of higher level languages, and computers adapting to humans (rather than the other way around). Nobody is going to be aiming at a superintelligence which is autistic in this department.