Unethical Research: How to Create a Malevolent Artificial Intelligence
  Cybersecurity research involves publishing papers about malicious exploits as
much as publishing information on how to design tools to protect
cyber-infrastructure. It is this information exchange between ethical hackers
and security experts, which results in a well-balanced cyber-ecosystem. In the
blooming domain of AI Safety Engineering, hundreds of papers have been
published on different proposals geared at the creation of a safe machine, yet
nothing, to our knowledge, has been published on how to design a malevolent
machine. Availability of such information would be of great value particularly
to computer scientists, mathematicians, and others who have an interest in AI
safety, and who are attempting to avoid the spontaneous emergence or the
deliberate creation of a dangerous AI, which can negatively affect human
activities and in the worst case cause the complete obliteration of the human
species. This paper provides some general guidelines for the creation of a
Malevolent Artificial Intelligence (MAI).
