The easiest pathway to control is through executive power
When people in the AI safety community outline loss-of-control scenarios, they often spend a lot of time on relatively elaborate mechanisms — scheming AIs developing nanotech, labs leveraging superintelligence into hard power like drone armies, or bioweapons, or perhaps softer means like massive cyber attacks or mass persuasion. I think this underrates the extent to which power is already highly centralised within the persons of the US President and Chinese General Secretary. They have the easie
By djbinder