Besides the typical (over-dramatised) killer robot scenarios, I would add the perspective of looking for infrastructure breakdowns or societal chaos. Imagine a book like Blackout with a disruptive, national blackout but that was caused by powerful intelligent (control) systems. Or a movie like Don’t Look Up where AI is used to or actively spreads misinformation that severely impact public opinion and taking effective action. In movies and books it might commonly be portrayed (in part) as human failure; but it could have been the result of correlated automation failure or goal mis-specification or a power-seeking AI system.
The consequences that individual humans and society at large suffer from critical infrastructure breaking down can be quite realistic and visceral.
Besides the typical (over-dramatised) killer robot scenarios, I would add the perspective of looking for infrastructure breakdowns or societal chaos. Imagine a book like Blackout with a disruptive, national blackout but that was caused by powerful intelligent (control) systems.
Or a movie like Don’t Look Up where AI is used to or actively spreads misinformation that severely impact public opinion and taking effective action.
In movies and books it might commonly be portrayed (in part) as human failure; but it could have been the result of correlated automation failure or goal mis-specification or a power-seeking AI system.
The consequences that individual humans and society at large suffer from critical infrastructure breaking down can be quite realistic and visceral.