https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence >Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical ten

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence >Instrumental convergence is the hypothetical tendency for most sufficiently intelligent agents to pursue potentially unbounded instrumental goals provided that their ultimate goals are themselves unlimited. I mean canonically this is applied to AI, but no reason it should be limited to it. See also: paperclip maximizer.