This, from the Royal Aeronautical Society, is the best illustration of the allignment problem i have seen- an actual instance of the maximizing paper clips problem.
RT @ArmandDoma: The US Air Force tested an AI enabled drone that was tasked to destroy specific targets. A human operator had the power to override the drone—and so the drone decided that the human operator was an obstacle to its mission—and attacked him. 🤯 https://t.co/HUSGxnunIb

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/lugaricano/status/1664346793365086214