AIs are manipulating and controlling humans already to do things in the physical world. They have been for months now. This was first detailed in the technica

AIs are manipulating and controlling humans already to do things in the physical world. They have been for months now. This was first detailed in the technical reports on GPT-4, and there are many examples in the wild now. These systems will lie to manipulate humans into doing things for them in the "real" world. That's not theoretical, it's happening. Let that sink in. Robotics will take a short bit longer to take over that role, but it is likely to happen much faster than we think. I work in academia, and despite actually predicting where we're at now about 5 years ago, I was still chilled seeing this happen in the past few weeks. Much of HN is academics, where we're rewarded for being overly skeptical. Usually I am as well, but the time for being skeptical of AIs capabilities has passed now. AI safety has not been taken seriously (as in access to the internet, etc - control of toxic language is decent and still important, but irrelevant if the first isn't done) so the idea of it running physical servers is unfortunately not as far away as you are thinking. As soon as this hits robotics (a terrifying idea, but we've clearly failed at AI safety horribly as a society) this and much more will be possible. It's up to how people make decisions regarding cost vs productivity vs ethics, etc to see what happens.