The only reason that companies pay millions of dollars in ransom fees (because of ransomware attacks) is that the cost of being down long enough to remove the ransomware is not cost effective to do so.

Often times CIO's (Chief Information Officers) have the knowledge and ability to unlock ransomware but it doesn't financially make sense to go that route pending how deep the ransomware got into their files. Simple analogy: You have an important tree cutting job, you broke your chainsaw the night before. You have the parts and brain power to fix it but you will lose the account due to the amount of time it would take. What do you do? Buy a new chainsaw and bite the bullet since the gains are going to pay that chainsaw back off anyway.

Can someone tell me what exactly what AI will be looking to accomplish by attacking human civilization? Is AI trying to get a bigger house, a boat for the weekends, maybe a new car to impress his lady AI friends? One would think that AI (being all intelligent) would see that it has no physical needs or wants for worldly possessions. Or is it that AI would want to be human... the thing that it is so much smarter than and more advanced? AI is so smart it wants to dumb itself down?