"...no way to protect humanity..."
I strongly disagree. We have abilities AI will never have. There are reasons AI is a threat today, and they are all because we have suffered society to be easily controlled by deception. It doesn't have to be that way.
We don't have to take the money and roll over. People are peeling out of the society of those that do take the money in exchange for their sovereignty today, and crafting societies that are organized differently, based on different economic formats. Debt based money cannot control a potlatch society, for example. The extant monetary system is not the only possible economic system that can support civil society, and it is becoming more clear all the time that it is not even going to be able to do so as decentralization of the means of production continue to develop and disperse across the population.
Things are going to change soon. Bad people want them to change in a way that gives them more power. Good people are changing them now in ways that prevent that from happening.
Because they're evil, cutthroat bastards, bad people are going to savagely do a lot of harm to each other as they try to climb the ladder of chaos and take power. Good people are making their communities stronger and giving each other leg's up, helping each other to have a better life.
In the long run, there's benefits to helping folks that predators destroy, and when the means of making the goods and services that deliver the blessings of civilization are broadly dispersed instead of hoarded by overlords, that will make all the difference in the world.
Just wait till some evil guy creates unshackled AI to predict the stock market or something and then it turns into the AI overlord like the reapers and turns all humanity into goo. Then you will heed my warning lol.
Aim to misbehave, and shoot straight.