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Probably just an overhelmed outworld FOB to check out on aliens, didn't triggered WW III 'cause it was a favor.
Woudn't mind to know which weaponry was used to accomplish it, but I strongly bet on some standard ICBMs modified to follow a similar - slow - orbit like the used for the recent israely probe.
It didn't prevent the Vela Incident tough, but who we are to question the Blue Boys + Guardian strategies.
Which city of Spain, that detail makes a lot. I second hand know a lot about Málaga, it's quite a place to be, but that's about lifestyle (family, or single, you'll be good going there), but I don't know about the startup scene.
This, the current best, most realistic AI threat/risk assessments have "unintended consequences" written all over them.
Details can vary, predicted outcomes are incredibly non-original, seen previously in survivalist movies/books. Mostly macro-economic processes failing for some reason, wars all over the place, etc.
More or less, what it is expected as possible if the climate change somehow blows up in our lifetime (far sooner than expected).
Surprisingly, non of the skynet scenarios is currently thought possible by anything we're sure is far good and solid science. There could be surprises, I hope not.
Answering questions? Probably not the best course of action for a recently awaken AI, but you could check for some really freaking stuff like looking for self-replication to remote locations, direct or indirect attempts to make more resources available for itself (human avatars are still fancy?).
A real consciousness could be just almost anything, by example it could be just a bunch of pattern detection engines stacked in sufficiently capable layers, running on top of enough TPUs.
Then the AI could ask questions, answer them, plan, replicate itself, describe itself, create, make poetry, learn to code, learn languages, etc. Then it could show some kind of iniative to achieve some goal or ten thousands goals per second, maybe some of those goals were actually chosen by itself (how would you be able to distinguish just a few inserted into half a million goals correlatable with pre-defined guidelines?).
Then is up to you to decide if it is a conscious entity or just an almost infinitely capable automaton. Maybe both are actually the same.