[duped]

The madman needs access to the means to eliminate the undesirables. I don't see that as something AI has unbridled access too.

This is the classic hardware v software problem. Software can be arbitrarily smart, but it can only interact with the world using the hardware it's connected to. AI can't do anything more meaningful than what is defined by the devices it controls, and I don't think we're stupid enough as a people to connect AI to a doomsday device.

[amanaplanacanal]

I dunno. Give an AI Internet access and it would have theoretical access to a lot of things not even obviously connected to the internet.