Comment by night-rider

My take on this is that when AI gets the ability to manipulate matter, we get very unwanted results very quickly if we don't tame it preemptively. In other words, when it's not just about moving bits and language around, but interacting with the world and building tools, and self-replicating itself like a computer worm. That's concerning.

We need to sandbox AI, and build very good safe-guards so it can't escape that sandbox. Come to think of it: we can barely secure sandbox environments in computing, and there are documented cases of malware escaping a VM and contaminating the host.