I recommend reading Curtis Yarvin's recent writing on this exact topic [1].

[1]: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/there-is-no-ai-risk

I find his arguments very difficult to square with this article from 2015[1]. The prologue of [2] also paints a pretty compelling picture of how this might happen.

Also

> We don’t live in the world of Neuromancer and we never will. 99.9% of everything is mathematically invulnerable to hacking.

Seriously made me chuckle.

[1]: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/04/07/no-physical-substrate-...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Life-3-0-Being-Artificial-Intelligenc...

> Seriously made me chuckle.

Yea, assuming someone had enough resources to create a powerful AI, they would also have enough resources for a hefty collection of unreleased 0days...

The latter. AI is like any other technology, it can make the world a better place in the right hands or destroy it when it is in the hands of children like governments and greedy corporations.

It's the humans that control the AI that I worry about.

Yes