Hi, author here. I think there are at least two plausible ways this could happen -- one, a terrorist/anarchist deliberately does exactly what you joked about (g

Hi, author here. I think there are at least two plausible ways this could happen -- one, a terrorist/anarchist deliberately does exactly what you joked about (gives the AI everything it needs to go rogue), or two, the AI is supposed to be contained but is clever enough to engineer a way out (think Ava in Ex Machina learning to invert the power flow to cause a generator shutdown). I think the only way you'd be able to be safe would be to completely airgap and immobilize the AI, and give it a killswitch, but even then it could use plausibly psychological manipulation to get a human operator to let it out.