There could be many ways how an AI will produce human extinction without undergoing intelligent explosion. Even a relatively simple computer program, which helps biohacker to engineer new deadly biological viruses in droves could kill everybody.
I tried to list different ways how AI could kill humanity here:
There could be many ways how an AI will produce human extinction without undergoing intelligent explosion. Even a relatively simple computer program, which helps biohacker to engineer new deadly biological viruses in droves could kill everybody.
I tried to list different ways how AI could kill humanity here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/mgf/a_map_agi_failures_modes_and_levels/
and now working in transforming this map into a proper article. The draft is ready.