Putin is already president of Russia. The steps between an AI being president of a country and killing everybody is pretty cut-and-dry; I could probably do that if I had an AI’s value function. The steps between an AI being a computer program assigned to raise the stock price of GOOG$ and consistently becoming president of Russia are much less clear.
My point here was that humans seem so susceptible to propaganda that an AI can probably find some way to bend us to its will. But if you want a more specific strategy that the AI could use (which I think came to me in part because I had the current war in the back of my mind), see my top level comment here.
Putin is already president of Russia. The steps between an AI being president of a country and killing everybody is pretty cut-and-dry; I could probably do that if I had an AI’s value function. The steps between an AI being a computer program assigned to raise the stock price of GOOG$ and consistently becoming president of Russia are much less clear.
My point here was that humans seem so susceptible to propaganda that an AI can probably find some way to bend us to its will. But if you want a more specific strategy that the AI could use (which I think came to me in part because I had the current war in the back of my mind), see my top level comment here.