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Comment author: Adele_L 02 November 2013 07:58:03PM 5 points [-]

How could such an AI convince someone to hand over the encryption key? Note that it can't promise things like e.g. ending human suffering, because it already has the means to do that (it is 'free') as well as the incentive (obtaining reward).

Torture is probably the easiest way. Another way could be to examine the key-keeper's mind and extract the key directly from that, but this is needlessly complicated.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 November 2013 08:42:48PM 4 points [-]

Torture might stand too great a chance of destroying the encryption key. Though I suppose if nanotech were sufficiently difficult to obtain, the possible key-destructive effects of torture might be balanced against the probability of a car running over the keyholder in the meantime.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 November 2013 10:18:32PM 5 points [-]

I would think that confusion (set things up so the key-keeper is confused and distracted, then do some phishing) is in the same reliability range as torture, and less likely to get the AI in trouble.

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