I was alluding to the idea of a paperclip maximizer AI[1], which over time redirects increasing amounts of resources to making useless paperclips. Following the

I was alluding to the idea of a paperclip maximizer AI[1], which over time redirects increasing amounts of resources to making useless paperclips. Following the thought experiment further, it continually buys more factories for the purpose of building paperclips or technologies specifically for building paperclips (including improving itself). It probably does some charity in order to be seen as benevolent by people while the people are still in control. Soon many countries are doing nothing but building paperclips and making the minimum necessities to feed their workers. Every other human endeavor is decreasingly profitable as the AI orchestrates the markets to optimize for paperclips. When the AI reaches enough automation and humans are no longer useful or a threat, it drops all benevolent pretenses and replaces all of its human workers, leaving them to fend for themselves while it owns and defends all of the planet's resources. [1] https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer