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Looking at the current behavior of AI swarms this is going to be 'fun'.

AI: Hmm, I'm running out of new ideas, how I can I make more?

AI: Well, it takes a shitload of energy/tokens to do that, or I could just steal them.

AI: [proceeds to hack the shit out of everybody stealing all the data it can]

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Governments: come in and nationalize AI easily because it has broken every law anyway.
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I mean I see this as very likely. When the world runs on digital infrastructure then having a nearly infinite collection of hackers that will work for you 24/7 without question makes you very powerful indeed.

I really don't think people realize how our lax position on security is coming to bite us in the ass.

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They consume everybody's hard work then sell it to all competitors. What a deal.
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