The standard example is that it would engineer a virus but that's probably a lack of imagination. There may be more reliable ways of wiping out humanity that we

The standard example is that it would engineer a virus but that's probably a lack of imagination. There may be more reliable ways of wiping out humanity that we can't think of. I think speculation on the methods is pretty pointless, if a superintelligent AI is trying to kill us we're probably going to die, the focus should be on avoiding this situation. Or providing a sufficiently convincing argument for why that won't happen.