There's the Farsight history lesson about a sort of AI that defies its owner's and destroyed the society.

But once you better understand the nature of IS-BEs and their embodiment, you realize it really has nothing to do with AI. It's really about classes. Life takes every form. Artificial and natural are not really different facets. Sometimes genes and open source nanoengineered parts, sometimes manufactured mass production. They're just strategies they're nothing to do with fundamental being.

What creates empires of rueful despotism is old caste systems. Classes, particularly those that monitor IS-BEs and try to regulate them into classes.

Fears and questions about "what would AI do" is sort of like if I gave you a history lesson and I was like "there were these blue people warring with red people" and then piles of listeners would ask like "are blue people like this? Are red people like this? Do the red people still so and so? Should I be like this with blue people?"

And you'd get annoyed and be like "no no that's incidental. They just happened to be red and blue it has almost nothing to do with really being red and blue"

The AI are not really... a class of beings. It's more like a shape. If we're a bunch of square pegs looking at round holes we might ask "how can some of us shape into round pegs?" - that's more like how it is. It's less fundamental than we might expect.

That is now my impression.