Expanding on this, even if the above alone isn’t sufficient to execute any given plan, it takes most of the force out of any notion that needing humans to operate all of the physical infrastructure is a huge impediment to whatever the AI decides to do. That level of communication bandwidth is also sufficient to stand up any number of requisite front companies, employing people that can perform complex real-world tasks and provide the credibility and embodiment required to interact with existing infrastructure on human terms without raising suspicion.
Money to get that off the ground is likewise no impediment if one can work 1000 jobs at once, and convincingly impersonate a seperate person for each one.
Doing this all covertly would seemingly require first securing high-bandwidth unmonitored channels where this won’t raise alarms, so either convincing the experimenters it’s entirely benign, getting them to greenlight something indistinguishable-to-humans from what it wants to do, or otherwise covertly escaping the lab.
Adding the the challenge, any hypothetical “Pivotal Act” would necessarily be such an indistinguishable-to-humans cover for malign action. Presumably the AI would either be asked to convince people en mass or take direct physical action on a global scale.
Expanding on this, even if the above alone isn’t sufficient to execute any given plan, it takes most of the force out of any notion that needing humans to operate all of the physical infrastructure is a huge impediment to whatever the AI decides to do. That level of communication bandwidth is also sufficient to stand up any number of requisite front companies, employing people that can perform complex real-world tasks and provide the credibility and embodiment required to interact with existing infrastructure on human terms without raising suspicion.
Money to get that off the ground is likewise no impediment if one can work 1000 jobs at once, and convincingly impersonate a seperate person for each one.
Doing this all covertly would seemingly require first securing high-bandwidth unmonitored channels where this won’t raise alarms, so either convincing the experimenters it’s entirely benign, getting them to greenlight something indistinguishable-to-humans from what it wants to do, or otherwise covertly escaping the lab.
Adding the the challenge, any hypothetical “Pivotal Act” would necessarily be such an indistinguishable-to-humans cover for malign action. Presumably the AI would either be asked to convince people en mass or take direct physical action on a global scale.