I immediately thought of Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the

I immediately thought of Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon The Deep" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep). Half of the plot is an AI tricking people into freeing it and the subsequent havoc it wreaks.