I know you have a techie background, give “Our Final Invention” a read when you have the time. It’s a pretty quick read but will definitely curl your toe nails back at the prospects of unfettered AI. In a nutshell, AI coupled with nano-tech makes us nothing more than carbon building blocks for ever increasing material needs for AI to “break free” and inhabit the globe..
It can’t and won’t per se.
It needs will behind it.