Not OP, but I don't think the fear is that AI will take over the world and enslave as all. Rather the other way around. Imagine you can create an artificial con

Not OP, but I don't think the fear is that AI will take over the world and enslave as all. Rather the other way around. Imagine you can create an artificial consciousness. You could then proceed to cause this AI a tremendous amount of suffering, by submitting it only to whatever input it is that it considers unpleasant. This experiment could then be scaled up on a level unprecedented in history, and it would be possible to submit billions and billions of AI:s to effectively eternal torment. Why? Any reason. Perhaps as revenge on an AI that has acted against your interests, perhaps as a bargaining chip ("if you don't do as I say, I'll create a thousand exact copies of you and torture you"), perhaps just because - because hey, it's not like the world lacks psychos. [edit]: Ah, I see OP answered while I was typing. Oh well :)