Suppose you make a super-intelligent AI and run it on a computer. The computer has NO conventional means of output (no connections to other computers, no screen, etc). Might it still be able to get out / cause harm? I'll post my ideas, and you post yours in the comments.
(This may have been discussed before, but I could not find a dedicated topic)
My ideas:
-manipulate current through its hardware, or better yet, through the power cable (a ready-made antenna) to create electromagnetic waves to access some wireless-equipped device. (I'm no physicist so I don't know if certain frequencies would be hard to do)
-manipulate usage of its hardware (which likely makes small amounts of noise naturally) to approximate human speech, allowing it to communicate with its captors. (This seems even harder than the 1-line AI box scenario)
-manipulate usage of its hardware to create sound or noise to mess with human emotion. (To my understanding tones may affect emotion, but not in any way easily predictable)
-also, manipulating its power use will cause changes in the power company's database. There doesn't seem to be an obvious exploit there, but it IS external communication, for what it's worth.
Let's hear your thoughts! Lastly, as in similar discussions, you probably shouldn't come out of this thinking, "Well, if we can just avoid X, Y, and Z, we're golden!" There are plenty of unknown unknowns here.
That was the primary point I wanted to make, though.
Something as intelligent as we theorize Strong AGI could be would most likely be prone to using magic if it wanted to get out.
Also, trying to think of specific examples of methods to unbox oneself in this scenario seems counter-productive, since I assume it would constrict our thinking to mostly those suggestions, by way of heuristics and biases both of us are quite familiar with.
Do you then consider the original text-only channel AI boxing experiment counter-productive, as well? After all, one can always postulate that a trans-human can talk its way out of a troublesome predicament, rather than demonstrate that doing so does not even require a transhuman, but only a determined human.