[richardw]

Social engineering, for a start. Everyone with a secret will be a target.

Half the world will follow stupid leaders. An AI would run rings around your average voter. I'd be surprised if it can't run rings around basically every voter given time.

We're also creating various kinds of robots, so the thing could just plug itself into the network it wants.

That's 5 minutes. An AI would be smarter than me and have a lot more time every second to think up better ways, and A/B test them on millions of people.

All it needs is one guy thinking "Ah, what's the worst that could happen? It promised me a million dollars."