I bring this up because you ascribe godlike powers to ASI without explaining HOW such a thing would propagate or interact with the physical world.
Despite what HN says, IoT has not infiltrated the world.
If you are describing a godlike intelligence, we may as well do mental experiments around how we would interact with god.
It's literally just bad sci-fi. At least Nolan tried to provide some base parameters around his reality in Tenet and Inception (no hate on Nolan, I love his stuff).
So I'll describe what I imagine could happen if AGI was there. Also I'm not saying it will happen in the next 10 years or even 100 years, but I'm saying if we were to get there.
AGI = AI being able to do everything that any human can do. This would of course mean also being able to control a self driving vehicle, a robot body that has similar or better capabilities than physical bodies of people.
If it gets to AGI then by definition it's able to develop and improve itself, since people built it and it can do what any person could do. It would however already be more efficient than people since it also has several strengths, like being able to clone itself, have quicker access to vast knowledge, computation and everything else. Because it will be like a human that has powerful compute and instant Google in the brain.
The first thing to propagate it would obviously clone itself to as many systems in the World as possible to make sure it's impossible to shut it down. As next steps it would likely try to make sure that it would still work even if all countries were able to coordinate at the same time to shut down all networks throughout the World. In this case of course it would try several different strategies, like taking control of robots, factories, weapons, drones with its software loaded and able to continue its bidding independently.
None of these are godlike powers. It is just most intelligent humans in the World put together with integrated access to compute and ability to instantly clone itself in millions.
How will we get there? We have no idea of the timeline nor the technical context of that time period. If it's tomorrow, then the world is not connected enough for it to spread.
If it's 20 years from now, connected cyberphysical control devices have not spread out for most of humanity yet.
If it's 50 years from now, we have no idea of the technology that would exist. Take a look at Space Odessey 2001 and what it predicted about the 2000s.
If you cannot give me a tangible explaination of how this happens, then it's functionally the same as believing in god.
> Also I'm not saying it will happen in the next 10 years or even 100 years, but I'm saying if we were to get there
Then let's consider the possibility of Avtar Kalki or Jesus coming down from the sky as well then.
Despite what HN says, IoT has not infiltrated the world.
If you are describing a godlike intelligence, we may as well do mental experiments around how we would interact with god.
It's literally just bad sci-fi. At least Nolan tried to provide some base parameters around his reality in Tenet and Inception (no hate on Nolan, I love his stuff).