Skynet might actually be the more realistic scenario to consider, assuming we're specifically casting about for potentially far-fetched worst-case scenarios. Wh

Skynet might actually be the more realistic scenario to consider, assuming we're specifically casting about for potentially far-fetched worst-case scenarios. Which would be a reasonable thing to do under the minimax principle. So, some organization deliberately plugging the technology into something dangerous like a defense computer network that includes computers that can be used to control weapons systems. That would potentially be more worrisome because one would assume that the organization setting it up, being a military agency, would be building it to be more resistant to attack than your average municipal power grid. Also, we don't necessarily need to posit that it deliberately tries to take over the world, Skynet-style. Just that it does something surprising and unintended. Which is not necessarily all that far-fetched? Despite the leaps and bounds we've made in raw performance at certain tasks, this whole branch of technology continues to be notoriously flaky.