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I would like to hear specifically how AI can destroy life on Earth? I realize AI could be used for sinister reasons. Someone could ask AI to infiltrate computer systems, for nefarious reasons. General statements w/o examples don't relate the story very well.

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Bostrum's paperclip analogy: If an AI were given the order to make paperclips and could reprogram itself to continuously perfect its paperclip making, inevitably the entire universe and every living thing in it would be reduced to paperclips.

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