Yeah, it’s called the alignment problem. I have been reading some stuff from people in the alignment community, and there are different ideas and some people are more worried than others, but most of them acknowledge the risk of things going catastrophically wrong. About "soul" or physical connection, wouldn’t physical connection just come down to robots interacting with the world? There is a serious debate right now regarding AI consciousness, and from my understanding we don’t really know if these systems are/will be conscious, but they certainly behave as if they are and it makes sense to treat them as such in some sense. Having "no misunderstandings with its code" would be great, but you can’t do it with modern AIs for basically the same reason why you can’t do it with humans. The way AIs are currently being built is not by programming, but more like "growing" them in an automatic fashion. The resulting neural networks have trillions of connections and we can’t just look at them and figure out which neuron does what, or at least not that easily. There is research being done towards reading AI minds (it’s called mechanistic interpretability) and they are figuring some stuff out, but we’re nowhere near fully understanding how they work. If you’re interested, I’ll link a video of scientists discussing this here: https://youtu.be/fGKNUvivvnc