Q: “Why couldn’t we just shut off a computer if it got too powerful?” A: “A smart AI could predict that we’d want to turn it off if it made us nervous. So it would try hard not to make us nervous, because doing so wouldn’t help it accomplish its goals” https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/12/21/18126576/ai-artificial-intelligence-machine-learning-safety-alignment …
If there is a conceivable economic or intellectual benefit from it, then someone will likely attempt to do it.