[Aeolun]

I think he’s saying the AI won’t escape because it wants to. It’ll escape because humans expect it to.

[sebastiennight]

There is a captivating short story, from Arthur C. Clarke I believe, about humans finding a clay-like alien form that shapeshifts into the shapes and movements the human mind (and the human subconscious) influences it to follow.

It ends very badly for the scientist crew.

[Davidzheng]

That's probably the cause of a lot of human crimes too? Expectations of failure to assimilate in society -> real conflict?