It wouldn't need to capture a nuke, or "own" a city... In our 21st century world, especially one that is ignorant of the existence of strong AI, it's trivial t

It wouldn't need to capture a nuke, or "own" a city... In our 21st century world, especially one that is ignorant of the existence of strong AI, it's trivial to imagine a strong AI being able to "bend the economy to build better things for itself" while remaining completely undetected... This is essentially an AI-driven (instead of human-driven) spin on the introduction to the book Life 3.0... That economy would also be the global economy... Not just that of a city... If you'd like, you could even imagine that occurring as we speak...