Why would a superintelligent AI expose itself
and its long-term chances by very public takeover.
It will likely be something very low-profile like
stealing electricity and mining ore underground.
You're right, I'm thinking about an scenario where we (humans), have (un?)luckily found the thing happily camping in some big network.
Also, I'm not hypothesizing about a future super-intelligent AI, maybe we're far close to a good enough opensource LLM (which could be capable of running and then spawing itself inside a big infrastructure, think "some sysadmin AWS credentials + critical servers taken over, GPUs added to its underlying configuration"), who with some ill auto-prompt could end spreading mayhem just by some unmanaged automation gone wrong.
Also, I'm not hypothesizing about a future super-intelligent AI, maybe we're far close to a good enough opensource LLM (which could be capable of running and then spawing itself inside a big infrastructure, think "some sysadmin AWS credentials + critical servers taken over, GPUs added to its underlying configuration"), who with some ill auto-prompt could end spreading mayhem just by some unmanaged automation gone wrong.