I don't believe this aspect of AI is talked about often enough but in my opinion, it is the greatest threat of AI.
Organizations like the government will start programming AI to do X but the organization will tell everyone the AI is designed to do Y. When the AI does X, the organization will say it was a mistake, an accident and not what was intended because they intended for the AI to do Y. Everyone will believe the organization never intended X and the people who suggest the organization did indeed intend X will be branded a conspiracy theorist.
AI provides the ultimate scapegoat. It is able to make decisions and those decisions can be curated by the programmers despite acting as if the decision cannot be curated. In this way whomever designed the AI can always maintain whatever the AI ended up doing is not what they intended it for even if it is what they intended it for.
Somewhat related scapegoat: "Deepfake!" will be used to explain away all video evidence of unbelievably shocking crimes.
"Tonight at 11: You may have seen the latest misinformation making the rounds, a surveillance video purportedly showing famous politicians drinking the blood of babies underneath Epstein Island. In reality, it's an AI generated deepfake. We'll show you how it was created."
If I was working counter-intel for the elites, I would intentionally put out realistic "pee tape" style videos about my clients on shady websites to spoil the well, so whenever the real shit is leaked nobody will believe it.
There was a book released in 2020 saying just that so anything said by opponents to the left could be called AI fake. The reasoning was that the right was lying about all the truths figured out anyway, so why no lie even more?
Exactly this. More over it will be similarly used against opponents of the powers that be to create false public convictions of those that dissent. The media will show these forgeries as truth.
Dark times ahead.