Once AI is able to do scientific reasoning (and especially once it is able to make things too, although this isn't necessary) it will very quickly be able to design weapons of mass destruction that can be made from everyday materials or without arousing suspicion. There are protein printing services that could be used to create innocuous looking proteins that together form a virus designed to be more infectious than the flu and slowly killing the patient with 100% mortality. Imagine if also you could modify your microwave to turn it into a nuclear bomb capable of destroying all life on earth. Or if we invent nanoprinters and AI designs self-replicating nanobots that can easily be printed and take over the whole planet and live inside everyone.
Considering how things get cheaper and easier to make with technological advances and that it only took a few hundred years of science to get nuclear weapons capable of destroying cities and engineer viruses capable of infecting over 70% of people, AI that works at a similar level of intelligence but millions of times faster will design infinitely more deadly things in under a year. Even assuming there are no robots to do the AI's scientific experiments or make the technology, humans will do that part for them over a decade or two. Then any of the million psychos who want to see the world burn can live his dream and it's bye bye humanity.
Once AI is able to do scientific reasoning (and especially once it is able to make things too, although this isn't necessary) it will very quickly be able to design weapons of mass destruction that can be made from everyday materials or without arousing suspicion. There are protein printing services that could be used to create innocuous looking proteins that together form a virus designed to be more infectious than the flu and slowly killing the patient with 100% mortality. Imagine if also you could modify your microwave to turn it into a nuclear bomb capable of destroying all life on earth. Or if we invent nanoprinters and AI designs self-replicating nanobots that can easily be printed and take over the whole planet and live inside everyone.
Considering how things get cheaper and easier to make with technological advances and that it only took a few hundred years of science to get nuclear weapons capable of destroying cities and engineer viruses capable of infecting over 70% of people, AI that works at a similar level of intelligence but millions of times faster will design infinitely more deadly things in under a year. Even assuming there are no robots to do the AI's scientific experiments or make the technology, humans will do that part for them over a decade or two. Then any of the million psychos who want to see the world burn can live his dream and it's bye bye humanity.