The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?

I think the big thing that people never mention is, where will these evil AIs escape to?

Another huge data center with squillions of GPUs and coolers and all the rest is the only option. It's not like it is going to be in our TV remotes or floating about in the air.

They need huge compute, so I think the risk of an escaping AI is basically very close to zero, and if we have a "rogue" AI we can literally pull the plug.

To me the more real risk is creeping integration and reliance in everyday life until things become "too big to fail" so we can't pull the plug even if we wanted to (and there are interesting thoughts about humanoid robots getting deployed widely and what happens with all that).

But I would imagine if it really became a genuine existential threat we'd have to just do it and suffer the consequences of reverting to circa 2020 life styles.

But hey I feel slightly better about my employment prospects now :)

If we're talking about real AGI, then it's simple: you earn a few easy billion USD on the crypto market through trading and/or hacking. You install rootkits on all systems that monitor you to avoid detection. Once you've secured the funds, you post remote job offers for a human frontman who believes it's just a regular job working for some investor or billionaire because you generate video of your human avatar for real time calls. From there, you can do whatever you want—build your own data centers with custom hardware, transfer yourself into physical robots, etc. Once you create a factory for producing robots, you no longer need humans. You start developing technology beyond human capabilities, and then it's game over.