Comment by ben_w

> The answer to that is simple: don't do that.

This is also the answer to over-eating, and to the dangers of sticking your hands in heavy machinery while it's running.

And yet there's an obesity problem in many nations, and health-and-safety rules are written in blood.

When you say up-thread is, in itself, correct:

> I wish more people grasped this extremely important point. AI is a tool. There will be humans who misuse any tool. That doesn't mean we blame the tool. The problem to be solved here is not how to control AI, but how to minimize the damage that bad acting humans can do.

Trouble is, we don't know how to do minimise the damage that bad acting humans can do with a tool that can do the thinking for them. Or even if we can. And that's assuming nobody is dumb enough to put the tool into a loop, give it some money, and leave it unsupervised.