As for AI, is it possible we could actually create 'intelligence' when we don't understand how our own works?
Good point. However, my problem with our current leaders is not their intelligence or lack of, but their lack of character. Being utterly corrupt with closets brimming of skeletons, they're easy to blackmail even if, by miracle, they'd have a shred of morality. At least an AI would be immune to that.
Also, you don't need to tell me about the dangers of training AI ourselves :) My son is quite adamant on that topic and won't have anything to do with AI. I lost my job to ChatGPT two years ago... yet, I don't think there's anything we can do to stop AI. Might turn out to be a terrible invention but the cat is out of the bag, the train has left the station, the milk has been spilled and so on.