The issue with embodiment is that it's relatively easy to start affecting the world once you have Internet access. Including things like adding great features to open source software that contains subtle bugs to exploit.
Or if you mean the physical world, even sending some text messages to a lonely kid can get them to do all sorts of things.
> We cannot, in general, keep humans under control or aligned.
This is the crux of why replicable-more-than-human-intelligence is so dangerous. Even giving a random person on the street great power is a bad idea, and they've evolved to have very similar values and preferences to you.
Or if you mean the physical world, even sending some text messages to a lonely kid can get them to do all sorts of things.
> We cannot, in general, keep humans under control or aligned.
This is the crux of why replicable-more-than-human-intelligence is so dangerous. Even giving a random person on the street great power is a bad idea, and they've evolved to have very similar values and preferences to you.