Even Hollywood heroes like Chris Hemsworth harbor fears that AI is up to no good.

It’s a well-worn trope in traditional dystopian AI stories, like “Colossus: The Forbin Project” and the “Terminator” movies: A super-smart artificial intelligence program attains self-awareness and seeks to dominate or exterminate humanity. 

And in a played-for-laughs new ad for Amazon, Hemsworth envisions various ways the company’s “AI helper” could decapitate, drown or otherwise murder him.

But there are other, much more insidious risks to worry about. 

A greater threat may be those forms of AI that require much less in the way of brute-force braininess, and instead take advantage of innate human traits.

What if the easiest way for AI to conquer the world isn’t through violence, but with cuteness, or sexiness, or simply friendliness? 

Things that make us drop our guard; influence, not outright control.

Because let’s face it, you don’t need a 120,000 IQ to fool humans. Or even a 120 one. 

All it takes to fool people is an ability to take advantage of basic characteristics of human personality and cognition — which machines of only moderate intelligence are well equipped to do.

Not brute-force brilliance, but merely superlative sneakiness.

Seduction, not raw domination.........

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