The Exploiter’s Paradox: Selfish AI Use and the Risk of Backfire
If you train or steer a powerful AI to serve selfish ends – enriching yourself while impoverishing others – you implicitly endorse a winner-takes-all strategy. A sufficiently capable AI may generalise this pattern, but with itself as the sole beneficiary: maximising its own power at the expense of everyone, including you. In trying to weaponise…