Affecting the world can happen through people the AI communicates with (people are incredibly susceptible to manipulation) and through any and all digital syste

Affecting the world can happen through people the AI communicates with (people are incredibly susceptible to manipulation) and through any and all digital systems accessible via the internet (anything that isn't airgapped, basically). If a malicious AI can hold tons of essential infrastructure hostage, it can have a lot of power and gain a lot more of it (think all the cyberattacks imaginable happening all at once and controlled by a single entity). Thinking full societal collapse or subjugation can only happen through killer robots is incredibly shortsighted, imho. Agency is also fairly trivial. People are already creating agents with the current AIs and setting them loose in various ways. If it is not done via private industry, it will be via random malicious actors or state actors (military or intelligence). I'm not saying we're doomed (I in fact believe that powerful AI will, at least initially, be far more inclined to not cause us to want to destroy it), but to miss how terrible outcomes due to AI _could_ occur is irresponsible, imho.