One of the first steps of a runaway AI attempting to secure its presence would likely be inference/GPU/TPU compute access. And code injection is a vector. There are multiple other vectors.

But, perhaps considering AI as an adversary is a bad idea. And alignment along the “Love is all you need” lines is the actual solution. Tricky problem…

I was laughing last night when I realized that even if you want to make an AI that only knows and cares about maximizing paperclip output, you also need to teach it to love all humans unconditionally to prevent the apocalypse.