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Yup, AI is scary. But I would posit the question are they any more or less scary than the human species in its whole history, culminating in a time right now where everyone is so polarised in arguing their opinions that they don't recognize that they're destroying the environment that has sustained them for the last 800000 years.

who is to say an AI would make it worse. it is literally an untested theory of an AI led society. Although I do get your point, the picture I've painted in this Sci-fi story is a scary and omnipotent version of AI dominance. But finally subsumed by a species that they had never experienced before, and therefore had no frame of reference to deal with.

For me, stories like this are an interesting thought experiment!