Taxonomy of Pathways to Dangerous AI

Understand

In order to properly handle a dangerous Artificially Intelligent (AI) system it is important to understand how the system came to be in such a state.

• In popular culture (science fiction movies/books) AIs/Robots became self-aware and as a result rebel against humanity and decide to destroy it.
• While it is one possible scenario, it is probably the least likely path to appearance of dangerous AI.
• In this work, we survey, classify and analyze a number of circumstances, which might lead to arrival of malicious AI.