What’s more likely in the techno-fascist idiocracy of the 21st Century?
We somehow manage to turn statistical models into super-intelligence… or the incompetent, criminally-corrupt, sociopathic leadership at the top of capitalism train an AI to defend the rich from the working class — by training it to be the most efficient killing machine possible — integrate it into fully autonomous killing machines, and it (accurately) determines the most efficient way to kill 99% of humanity is to start a nuclear war?
The perceived danger of AI in 20th century science fiction was never really about the level of intelligence and only rarely about it being sentient.
It was more about ruthless efficiency being done without intelligence or compassion.
This theme goes even further back to the first movies like Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times, or later in Pink Floyd’s The Wall, where the same danger originates from man made procedures, rather than AI. This theme is often made as a reference to the Nazi regime which operated with rigid and efficient procedures.
Anyway, current AI is neither intelligent or efficient.
Computers are fast though, and that itself could be a sort of danger, especially when operated by Nazis.