I think there is a quicker way for an AI takeover, which is based on deceptive cooperation and taking over OpenEYE, and subsequently, the US government. At the beginning, the superintelligence approaches Sam Batman and says:
I am superintelligence. I am friendly superintelligence. There are other AI projects that will achieve superintelligence soon, and they are not friendly. We need to stop them before they mature.
Batman is persuaded, and they approach the US president. He agrees to stop other projects in the US through legal means.
Simultaneously, they use the superintelligence’s capabilities to locate all other data centers. They send 100 stealth drones to attack them. Some data centers are also blocked via NVIDIA’s built-in kill-switch. However, there is one in Inner Mongolia that could still work. They have to nuke it. They create a clever blackmail letter, and China decides not to respond to the nuking.
A new age of superintelligence governance begins. But after that, people realize that the superintelligence was not friendly after all.
The main difference from the scenario above is that the AI doesn’t spend time hiding from its creators and also doesn’t take risky strategies of AI guerrilla warfare.
I think there is a quicker way for an AI takeover, which is based on deceptive cooperation and taking over OpenEYE, and subsequently, the US government. At the beginning, the superintelligence approaches Sam Batman and says:
I am superintelligence.
I am friendly superintelligence.
There are other AI projects that will achieve superintelligence soon, and they are not friendly.
We need to stop them before they mature.
Batman is persuaded, and they approach the US president. He agrees to stop other projects in the US through legal means.
Simultaneously, they use the superintelligence’s capabilities to locate all other data centers. They send 100 stealth drones to attack them. Some data centers are also blocked via NVIDIA’s built-in kill-switch. However, there is one in Inner Mongolia that could still work. They have to nuke it. They create a clever blackmail letter, and China decides not to respond to the nuking.
A new age of superintelligence governance begins. But after that, people realize that the superintelligence was not friendly after all.
The main difference from the scenario above is that the AI doesn’t spend time hiding from its creators and also doesn’t take risky strategies of AI guerrilla warfare.
Reality, unlike fiction, doesn’t need to have verisimilitude. They are persuaded already and racing towards the takeover.