Infrastructure profusion is a type of malignant AI failure mode involving the transformation of large parts of the accessible universe into infrastructure in the service of some goal that impedes the realization of humanity’s long-term potential.
Further reading
Bostrom, Nick (2014) Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 122–125.
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existential risk | malignant AI failure mode | mind crime | perverse instantiation | superintelligence