No. Because you need to explain to me how those assertions were derived.
> it would be able to gather quite a bit of financial resources, hack individuals, organizations, blackmail some individuals to do prepwork for it and do other forms of social engineering at that time to prepare for the physical step
How? This is a hard problem that touches the core of the cybersecurity industry, and something everyone prepares for under the assumption a nation state attacker will do something like that with humans.
> it would be able to clone itself so the only way to shut it down even if it was caught, was if Internet throughout the whole World was shut down
How? By definition malicious payload that spreads via lateral movement is a computer virus, and becomes a cybersecurity problem again.
What do you exactly mean by "everyone prepares for"?
Because last year the payments for ransomware were more than $1 billion.
And it’s been trending higher.
Please tell me which of the following steps you would not agree would be doable for an ASI after it got access to the Internet:
1. It would be able to find at least one other unsecured, unmonitored box on the Internet where it can send its scripts to be able to start rest of the heavier work with less bandwidth originating from the original box.
2. From there it would be able to develop a botnet. This can currently be done even with out of the box scripts, but ASI would be able to immediately develop a more sophisticated botnet than that, because it would already know those scripts anyway.
3. The way it would create botnet and the size of the botnet would be far faster and stronger than human hackers would, since with each infected box it’s able to adapt and scale faster, while human botnet creators wouldn’t usually be able to adapt as quickly when new information or vulnerabilities arise.
4. Once it has the botnet, it would be able to do ransomware attacks on Companies, with far higher scale and potential than $1 billion per year.
5. It can send out phishing e-mails to perform attacks on individuals.
6. Once it can hack individuals, it can find individuals who have something to lose or hide. It can do it at very high scale, while personalising every attack, and doing it with different variations so immediately no one would be able to tell that it’s the same attacker. It will blackmail those individuals do perform first physical actions.
7. Since that is already possible, it wouldn’t be a problem for it to do any 100% convincing speech, image generation, etc, to also do very convincing phishing calls.
8. It can use all sorts of other social engineering methods, taking advantage of lonely old people, young people, anything really.
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So which one would seem unfeasible? Since it’s able to scale its cognition it would be able to do these with magnitudes of scale compared to what is done right now yearly.
So in theory it would be capable of generating far more money than $1 billion, and that’s just these techniques and probably have thousands of individuals under its blackmail control.
> it would be able to gather quite a bit of financial resources, hack individuals, organizations, blackmail some individuals to do prepwork for it and do other forms of social engineering at that time to prepare for the physical step
How? This is a hard problem that touches the core of the cybersecurity industry, and something everyone prepares for under the assumption a nation state attacker will do something like that with humans.
> it would be able to clone itself so the only way to shut it down even if it was caught, was if Internet throughout the whole World was shut down
How? By definition malicious payload that spreads via lateral movement is a computer virus, and becomes a cybersecurity problem again.