> Hopefully you see the resemblance between this vision of AI and a genie from folklore. The AI is all-powerful and gives you what you ask for, but interprets everything in a super-literal way that you end up regretting.

The monkey's paw. You know, you don't need superintelligence for that.

Civilization was already doing this. "What if we just gave ourselves exactly what we wanted." Well, it turns out often that's not so good!