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I always enjoyed the Terminator movie series, but I always struggled to suspend my disbelief that any humans would give an AI such power without having the ability to override or pull the plug at multiple levels. How wrong I was.

N.B. the time travel aspect also required suspension of disbelief, but somehow that was easier :-)

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We delegate power already. Is unleashing AI in some place different from unleashing JSOC on an insurgency in a particular place? One is code and other is a bunch of humans.

You expect the humans to follow laws, follow orders, apply ethics, look for opportunities, etc. That said, you very quickly have people circling the wagons and protecting the autonomy of JSOC when there is some problem. In my mind it's similar with AI because the point is serving someone. As soon as that power is undermined, they start to push back. Similarly, they aren't motivated to constrain their power on their own. It needs external forces.

edit: missed word.

We are currently giving them similar power to the average human idiot because I figure they won't do much worse than those. Letting either launch nukes is different.

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