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I love this example. If you see me talking about Planet of the Paperclips, this what I'm referring to.
It's not relevant here though. In what sense would the cyberattack 'maximize' its ability to reserve a gym spot? Paperclip maximizer is only a scary story because it is smarter than humans. Having an insane ai do insane things, it's just insane, not an extinction-level threat.
You have an agentic AI that has absolutely no morality and is willing to bruteforce any mechanism to achieve it's simple goal. Use your imagination. Maybe instead of just canceling an appointment, it cancels their gym membership. Maybe instead of canceling their gym membership, it transfers all the money out of their account so they can´t pay the gym membership. Maybe instead of draining their bank account, it sends an e-mail complaint to the gym about being raped by the member in the locker room with manufactured video evidence. Maybe instead of fabricating a rape, it gains access to the member's self-driving car and drives it into a truck in the oncoming lane, killing the member and thereby forcing a cancellation.
That's the point of the paperclip thought experiment: you have an agentic AI whose power is matched only by its complete amorality. Any and every prompt can potentially be an extinction level event.
Nah bro. Just gotta update the soul.md file to explicitly say not to falsely accuse of rape, bro. Trust me bro. Just one more soul config, bro /s
Another aspect to this is: even if we could control AI, what makes anyone think people would use it responsibly? We can't even drive cars responsibly.