robertzk comments on Andrew Ng dismisses UFAI concerns - Less Wrong
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However, UFFire does not uncontrollably exponentially reproduce or improve its functioning. Certainly a conflagration on a planet covered entirely by dry forest would be an unmitigatable problem rather quickly.
In fact, in such a scenario, we should dedicate a huge amount of resources to prevent it and never use fire until we have proved it will not turn "unfriendly".
Do you realize this is a totally hypothetical scenario?