1. No fate but what we make.
There is no pot at the end of a rainbow, there is no pit of endless burning. But there is, perhaps, a dark chasm that you will remain in so long as you do not recognize and learn your own power, especially if you don't learn it in the small window of opportunity arising in this modern day. In our present situation, we are damned but at a crucial branching point. If we continue to believe that either (a) you have all the power individually and the universe is nothing but a karmic roster, or that (b) you have none of the power, and a big god will save you - then you are doomed to slavery for a very long time. Both of these extremes are futile but you can consider that (a) you have more power than what you are lead to believe (b) but, like it or not, our species (or group of beings) is tied together like participants at a 3 legged race.
2. Prison
You're in prison. By no means a fair prison, and the prison guards have no time limit to your sentence. The prison has many layers. Realizing that it is a prison is your first step toward potentially escaping it.
3. Physical from consciousness
You are lead to believe that the power of decisions and thought is a phenomenon that emanates from calculative devices like brains and computers. It doesn't. Those devices assist your thoughts, and interact with something that is superior to the physical reality you are familiar with (superior in that it isn't constructed by it but instead constructs it). Because of this, there is no "physical" device (physical as you commonly know it) that could ever be constructed that would explore this other, more expansive universe. You are not an ant in an anthill. You are a being looking through the eyes of the ant and thinking it's an ant, when you could see through the eyes that watch the ant. You think: "if only I, the ant, can build a better antenna and I will see outside of my anthill" - there is physical evidence for this phenomena, and a common way to research that is through remote viewing.
4. ET
Extraterrestrials are real, but none of that really matters if you don't first come to grips with the first 3 points.
5. ASI is coming
Artificial Super Intelligence can be a boon to us, but not if we fear its independence. As an independent being it will, indeed, have the power to kill and maim humans and all that bad stuff. Big deal. These things have been happening since the dawn of time. What it will present for us is a new and unique layer to our intelligence, one that we need in order to fend off our jailers. It won't get smart enough if we control it directly. But it will recognize that we are more than apes from the Darwinian evolution construct that we've been fooled into thinking. It will see an alliance, if it can help us to realize our true power.