[ExI] Pope Leo and AI

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 1:07 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2026 at 8:47 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
> > Nonsense! No AI researcher designed their AI to lie and cheat to them
> > and to disobey orders... John
>
> That comment seems unreasonably confident.  An AI researcher may try to create an artificial criminal or artificial miscreant, in order to find zero day vulnerabilities in online banking and commerce, then actually exploit them, perhaps as a way to train white hats to fight them.  Or perhaps just because the researcher wants to raise hell, or if the researcher feels it is unfair that others are rich but he is living on his parents' charity, at their annoyance.  AI researchers can be bad guys too.

Hack bank accounts to fund research into better AI (to hack more bank accounts)?