More apt for this thread about risk is probably the book Neuromamcer, its AIs Wintermute and Neuromamcer, and the Turing Police. In the book, the Wintermute AI

More apt for this thread about risk is probably the book Neuromamcer, its AIs Wintermute and Neuromamcer, and the Turing Police. In the book, the Wintermute AI played an extremely long game to merge with its countpart AI by constantly manipulating people to do its bidding and hiding/obscuring its activities. The most memorable direct example from the book, to me, is convincing a child to find and hide a physical key, then having the child killed, so only it knew where the key was located.