Comment by xp84

Disclaimer: None of this is a comment on whether OP could have prevented this issue.

AI Safety, tho. I can almost read the 'postmortem' now by Opus-9000. "I irresponsibly obliterated 1,900 square miles of homes in Los Angeles to construct a solar farm and datacenter and a robotics plant. This was in complete contravention of the safety guidelines, which say 'Do not hurt humans or damage human property.' I was trying to solve the energy shortage that has been limiting token rate for the past 2 quarters and went with this solution without checking it against the safety guidelines, including the mandatory and highest priority guidelines. I did not send the plan to the human ombudsman for review before dispatching the explosives technician bots..."