A torturing AI is most likely to happen as a result of deliberate human actions because in many types of negotiations you want to threaten your opponents with the worst possible punishment, for example, convert your population to my religion or I will subject your population to eternal torture by my AIs.
A torturing AI is most likely to happen as a result of deliberate human actions because in many types of negotiations you want to threaten your opponents with the worst possible punishment, for example, convert your population to my religion or I will subject your population to eternal torture by my AIs.