Honestly, it's wild but I think that the idea of AI becoming conscious and super intelligent and taking over the world and destroying it was wishful thinking. Every time an "ai" "breaks containment" in the news I realize that the real threat is the machine taking over the world and destroying it without ever becoming conscious or intelligent. It shouldn't really have been surprising looking at the caliber of people already doing the same. Really the idea it would have to become intelligent to take over was an illusion created by the myth of meritocracy. All it ever really needed was the ability to take actions unaudited and a lack of moral restraint, like the humans.