Dumb AI will dominate the world well before &quot;smart&quot; AI even gets close to taking off. I think the more realistic scenario is something like the paperclip maximizer, but a little dumber. A world of highly interconnected, but somewhat stupid AIs could cause utter chaos in milliseconds by following just some very basic rules (e.g. maximize number of paperclips in collection).<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.lesswrong.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paperclip_maximizer" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.lesswrong.com&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Paperclip_maximizer</a>