That’s a good way of looking at it! It’s interesting to think about the fact that, even something without evil intentions or thoughts, can still cause something chaotic or harmful due to a single “thought” process by itself. As you said, even if it didn’t have evil motives, it’s sole purpose to make more paperclips could blind it to other important factors in different scenarios that could possibly determine the outcome in the end. And I agree, AI becoming self-aware would probably be more harmful than some of the other scenarios that could come with AI! It’s a really interesting theory to think about!