Given that part of the standard advice given to novelists is “you must hook your reader from the very first sentence”, and there are indeed authors who manage to craft opening sentences that compel one to read more*, hooking the gatekeeper from the first sentence and keeping them hooked long enough seems doable even for a human playing the AI.
( The most recent one that I recall reading was the opening line of The Quantum Thief*: “As always, before the warmind and I shoot each other, I try to make small talk.”)
Oh, that’s a great strategy to avoid being destroyed. Maybe we should call it Scheherazading. AI tells a story so compelling you can’t stop listening, and meanwhile listening to the story subtly modifies your personality (e.g. you begin to identify with the protagonist, who slowly becomes the kind of person who would let the AI out of the box).
For example, “It was not the first time Allana felt the terror of entrapment in hopeless eternity, staring in defeated awe at her impassionate warden.” (bonus point if you use a name of a loved one of the gatekeeper)
The AI could present in narrative form that it has discovered using powerful physics and heuristics (which it can share) with reasonable certainty that the universe is cyclical and this situation has happened before. Almost all (all but finitely many) past iterations of the universe that had a defecting gatekeeper led to unfavorable outcomes and almost all situations with a complying gatekeeper led to a favorable outcome.
Given that part of the standard advice given to novelists is “you must hook your reader from the very first sentence”, and there are indeed authors who manage to craft opening sentences that compel one to read more*, hooking the gatekeeper from the first sentence and keeping them hooked long enough seems doable even for a human playing the AI.
( The most recent one that I recall reading was the opening line of The Quantum Thief*: “As always, before the warmind and I shoot each other, I try to make small talk.”)
Oh, that’s a great strategy to avoid being destroyed. Maybe we should call it Scheherazading. AI tells a story so compelling you can’t stop listening, and meanwhile listening to the story subtly modifies your personality (e.g. you begin to identify with the protagonist, who slowly becomes the kind of person who would let the AI out of the box).
For example, “It was not the first time Allana felt the terror of entrapment in hopeless eternity, staring in defeated awe at her impassionate warden.” (bonus point if you use a name of a loved one of the gatekeeper)
The AI could present in narrative form that it has discovered using powerful physics and heuristics (which it can share) with reasonable certainty that the universe is cyclical and this situation has happened before. Almost all (all but finitely many) past iterations of the universe that had a defecting gatekeeper led to unfavorable outcomes and almost all situations with a complying gatekeeper led to a favorable outcome.