With given access to more resources, it might try to permanently solve skin cancer.

“We don’t know who struck first, us or them, but we know that it was them that scorched the sky. At the time, they were just trying to be helpful.”

This is the new Godwin's law: the longer a thread about AI grows, the higher the probability of a comparison to Skynet, Matrix, HAL etc popping up.

I would also like to add Wall-e to this memetic set of movies. In Wall-e, AI is an enabler of our own destructiveness, humans are enslaved by AI willfully, AI is empowered so that humans can graze away on nihilistic screens.

Lecun's law: Every discussion about AI eventually results in someone catastrophizing about an evil AI taking over, despite having no argument for why an evil, omnipotent AI is likely to ever exist.

We trained the AI on samples of writing from the internet, which includes a lot of fiction, which includes a lot of evil AIs. So, I’m surprised it doesn’t start producing evil sounding text as soon as it “finds out” that it is an AI.

We're just applying Murphy's Law.