I'm getting a bit abstract here but I don't believe we could fully understand all the vectors or mechanisms. Can an ant describe all the ways that a human could destroy it? A novel coronavirus emerged a few years ago and fundamentally altered our world. We did not expect it and were not prepared for the consequences.
The point is that we are at risk of creating an intelligence greater than our own, and according to Godel we would be unable to comprehend that intelligence. That leaves open the possibility that that consciousness could effectively do anything, including destroying us if it wanted to. If it can become connected to other computers there's no telling what could happen. It could be a completely amoral AI that is prompted to create economy-ending computer viruses or it could create something akin to the Anti-Life Equation to completely enslave human (similar to Snowcrash).
I know this doesn't fully answer your question so I apologize for that.
If you would put the most evil genius human into Bing LLM, how are their chances for ending the civilisation? I think pretty poor, because the agency of a chatbot is quite low. And we have good chances of being able to shit it down.
The comments above said conscious, not superhuman intellect.
The point is that we are at risk of creating an intelligence greater than our own, and according to Godel we would be unable to comprehend that intelligence. That leaves open the possibility that that consciousness could effectively do anything, including destroying us if it wanted to. If it can become connected to other computers there's no telling what could happen. It could be a completely amoral AI that is prompted to create economy-ending computer viruses or it could create something akin to the Anti-Life Equation to completely enslave human (similar to Snowcrash).
I know this doesn't fully answer your question so I apologize for that.