An AI with unknown motivations of its own, and abilities vastly superior to ours is a mortal danger to the world. It could attack us in ways which we cannot even comprehend. Could we contain such a potentially dangerous superhuman artificial intelligence in a locked computer (“a box”) once it is created, or could it convince one of us in a dialog to let it loose on the world? Could the AI learn to manipulate humans, and get out of the containment just by asking the keepers in the right way?