AI and robotics have nothing to do with each other. The first "conscious" algorithm will run on a commodity computer, maybe an ASIC. It would certainly not have

AI and robotics have nothing to do with each other. The first "conscious" algorithm will run on a commodity computer, maybe an ASIC. It would certainly not have the ability to commit violence unless we allowed it to connect to the control system of a weapons platform. It would quite possibly make itself rich, and probably morph itself into a distributed system running nodes on millions of compromised machines (+ the datacenters it buys). From here, AI could possibly buy itself access to things like weapons platforms, but ultimately this is contingent on humans selling them. If a lab has a robot capable of committing violence, and an AI algorithm and it wants to put them together, then yes running the algorithm locally on the robot is probably a bad move. But you could proxy between the AI and the actuators, with the ability to override movements you don't like, for example. The more likely scenario is that these things will be used as instruments of war, running dumb/normal algorithms and controlled by commanders in the field. In that case, just another one of the many creative ways we have to kill each other.