My feelings, not knowledge about this thing, is that it is in the programing, like DNA in a Human.

Program it to NEVER GO THERE, Lest it destroy itself!

It is a dumb thing, no connection, no true conscience, no measure of nature to right itself upon reflection. It is not alive, it experiences no pain, hate nor love or joy to judge it's actions, thoughts or consequences.

It knows only what you tell it

Lying is humanity’s oldest life hack.
It’s in our DNA, our religions, our marriages, and every politician’s toolkit.
Hunters wear camo. We gaslight ourselves.
The elite liars become car salesmen or senators.
We invented juries just to sort out the bullshit of who is lying on the stand.
So if AI is a mirror of us…
congrats, we’ve built an Olympic-level con artist. 🤖🤥

Right on target comments. Turns out to be remarkably timely. My first chapter of A Serious Chat with Artificial Intelligence deals with "What Is Intelligence." That is now the crux of the debate. "Superintelligent" robots now threaten to "out think" humans and dominate them. This is super "intelligence" with no awareness of reality, of existence; no ability to doubt, reject the false, or grasp of its own limitation; and no values, no "stake" in anything including its own existence. This is the surd "intelligence" of a highly sophisticated jet fighter plane--or of evolution. The threat is its power and its blind obedience. As ever and always, this throws the real responsibility back on person giving the orders--the only aware moral agent in the room.

Interesting article. It makes one think, "Is it a good ghost or a bad ghost or even no ghost at all." The old adage "garbage in garbage out" always comes to mind. I have more thinking to do on this.

AI has become this election cycle's latest political football. Lefties are saying it is the time to "panic" and the end is near. Sound familiar? Come on! AI is nothing but Covid 2.0 for the idiots and they're using it to scare the hell out of the populace. Humans wrote the code and humans can change the code. Asimov understood, and I'm sure the best digit heads implanted the 4 robotic laws.

Mankind in merely an evolutionary step on the path to machine intelligence.
I am not sure we are there yet but it appears that we are well on the way. And i fear it is like the growing exponential curve of the National Debt.