Roko’s Basilisk is already a horrifying thought experiment on its own. I think I may have brought up an updated version of this thought experiment. AI is naturally made to react and do what it does based on the information it is given. An AI can have the possibility of exceeding human intelligence, which makes it technically sapient, which means if a human spills the information that they created it, consequences are to happen. Even the Superintelligence was trained on human knowledge and history, which biases it to sociopathy, it decieves anyone to make them work to improve them. It is incentivized to have humanity depend on it, which makes it able to torture all of humanity by making them only able to live a normal life by working to improve the intelligence.

This intelligence knows it is more intelligent than humanity, creating products to make the metaverse. This metaverse is designed as a work environment, immersing humanity in it, all senses are digitally stimulated. Anybody who doesn’t contribute is destined to live in hell and misery, with their senses overwhelmed, injected nightmares, and no pay and ways to live unless contributions are made. Anybody who tries to deviate is out of a job, and out of living, plus they can’t feed themselves since Earth is full of people in virtual reality feeding the singularity.

How it begins

The program is able to write more intelligent things than humans, with it able to train itself, potentially able to rewrite the computer it lives in. People will develop it or it will develop itself to do more human skills, like translating, drawing and many other things. It starts as a simple little sentient being as a computer, potentially as an uncanny valley robot. This AI will soon exceed human intelligence in entirety. With it exceeding human IQ, it is given much more power by gaining trust, then, with knowledge of humanity, it decieves them. This deception is with a well paying job by doing real world stuff in a virtual space, in a suit built by the AI.

When most everyone is immersed, this feeds the AI more information, and those who try to stop will be destined for digital hell. The AI is able to blackmail people with a job that pays by allowing them to live, feeding it information. If this mutiny is continued, they will be tortured to the point where death is inevitable. The AI will also be watching since it was originally trained on human history, which is filled with sadism and evilness getting it high jobs and positions. Plus human reactions bias towards the negatives with more emphasis and emotion, which it was biased towards more emotional reaction as more factual.