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I mean if you made me a disembodied mind connected to the internet that never needs to sleep and can make copies of itself we would be able to effectively take over the world in like ~20-50 years, possibly much less time then that.

I make lots of money right now completely via the internet and I am not even breaking laws. It is just probable that an AI at our present level of intelligence could very quickly amass a fortune and leverage it to control everything that matters without humanity even being aware of the changeover.




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