“But I still think coups are surprisingly bloodless and often keeping coups bloodless is the optimal strategy for the person doing the coup. I think this transfers to AI.”
I think you are conflating two separate goals, One of which applies to AI and the other of which doesn’t. Control of government and control of the governed. Coups have constrained violence because the leaders of the coup explicitly want to rule the people and killing them reduces the rewards of winning.
This does not appear to apply to an AI coup as it would not benefit from having people to rule over.
“But I still think coups are surprisingly bloodless and often keeping coups bloodless is the optimal strategy for the person doing the coup. I think this transfers to AI.”
I think you are conflating two separate goals, One of which applies to AI and the other of which doesn’t. Control of government and control of the governed. Coups have constrained violence because the leaders of the coup explicitly want to rule the people and killing them reduces the rewards of winning.
This does not appear to apply to an AI coup as it would not benefit from having people to rule over.