If AI systems can easily take over the world, doing so could give them option value for achieving goals such as making better iPhones or making it appear that they did.

“take over the world then i feel like there's a pretty reasonable case for the ais they're like i don't know exactly how this is going to go down i don't know what the situation will be but just taking over the world has a lot of option value for making better iphones make it look like i did better iphones whatever and so i'll both hack open ai and i'll also in addition to hacking open ai also take over the world and that will like put me in a good position where i have like good option value um and then if that's sufficiently easy then the ais might you know still do that”