A hypothetical doomsday scenario merging two AI risks: grey goo (self-replicating nanobots consuming resources) and a paperclip maximizer (an AI relentlessly optimizing for paperclip production). This thought experiment illustrates unchecked goal alignment failures, used by ethicists to warn against narrow AI objectives. Researchers and policymakers benefit by studying catastrophic outcome scenarios.
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