FWIW, that's what is so dangerous about AI, though? Not that it will necessarily want to kill us, or even that it will necessarily be able to "want" to do anything, but that we will get in the way of its incessant drive to optimize the efficiency of the paperclip factory that prompted it on a whim before leaving for a long weekend.
replySure but you can totally contrive scenarios to give the appearance of what you described without really doing anything notable.
replyWhat matters is scale. Did it deploy a novel zero-day exploit to overcome a problem? That's alarming. Did it kill a disruptive process? Pretty normal troubleshooting step.