This is sometimes called "instrumental convergence" in the AI safety world. Certain things (money, compute resources, safety from being turned off) are generally useful for an AI, and so we'd expect that a misalligned AI would attempt to acquire these things if given almost any substantial task.
This is sometimes called "instrumental convergence" in the AI safety world. Certain things (money, compute resources, safety from being turned off) are generally useful for an AI, and so we'd expect that a misalligned AI would attempt to acquire these things if given almost any substantial task.