Creating a destructive self-improving AI that kills all life should be the easiest of all possibilities with a high probability of success.
Where “success” refers to obliterating yourself and all your descendants. That’s not how most Darwinian creatures usually define success. Natural selection does build creatures that want to die—but only rarely and by mistake.
Where “success” refers to obliterating yourself and all your descendants. That’s not how most Darwinian creatures usually define success. Natural selection does build creatures that want to die—but only rarely and by mistake.