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by Eisenstein 967 days ago
Consider an AI as a personal assistant. The AI is in charge of filtering and sorting your email. It has as a priority to make your life more efficient. It decides that your life is more efficient if you don't see emails that upset you, so it deletes them. Now consider that you are in charge of something very important.

It doesn't take a whole lot of imagination to come up with scenarios like these.