Comment by baking

It's more likely to interfere in politics to achieve this objective:

- Socialists are taking control of the town, we need the state to step in a protect jobs. - The councillors are protecting illegal migrants. - There's a pedo ring operating from the state water board office. - Rival data centre operator is employing undocumented workers, shut them down! - Market rumours effect stock price of competitor, reduced fundraising round, cause it to cancel expansion.

There's so much training data to do this it seems inevitable.

This is already happening without the AI hooked up to anything, just the companies doing it and facing zero consequences. I'm sure they're scrambling as fast as they can to insert the AI into that process so they can start manufacturing plausible deniability.