Comment by layla5alive

Not even that much persuasion is necessary.

We have the medium of persuasion: it's called money, and people do ALL SORTS of horrible things that they wouldn't otherwise do when incentivized by money.

We also already have the mechanism of a machine incentivizing and directing people with money, and that's called a corporation (the original paperclip maximizers, by the way).

So you just need an LLM CEO of a legal corporation with financial resources -> near unlimited possibility of real-world impacts over time.