> It's a program with a lot of data running on a big calculator. It won't ever be "smart."

"Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...

Sure, but is it so implausible that it could some day have the knowledge to perhaps exploit some security hole to run some code that does do things like disable things or exfiltrate data etc?

I think you’ve entirely missed the point of that quote.

Shutting them down for using the word “smart” (instead of something like “capable”) is like saying in 1900 submarines will never be able to swim across the Atlantic because they can’t swim. It’s really missing the point of the question: the submerged crossing.