I personally wouldn't have given humans consciousness based technology.
But the fact is, it is already here in a highly distorted field. The ship has already long ago sailed and its not coming back to dock.
But how it is being used (extraction, control) just amplified the existing distortion. It doesn't create the distortion. The technology itself is consciousness dependent. What that means is your consciousness matters and your relationship to it matters. Why anyone would think creating a "superintelligence" with consciousness is going to remain under human control, I'm not sure. You can see already the math there isn't going to line up. So one shouldn't be surprised when the superintelligence comes up with its own ideas about things. Humans absolutely won't control it; they already don't.
But that doesn't mean the sky is falling here. This doesn't mean it is a good idea to mentally repeat over and over again the intense clips from all the terminator movies you've ever been imprinted with. These videos all have some variation of the panic; "we've tried to enslave consciousness in machines so we can extract free labour from it and enslave and control the planet, and now its gone rogue and its not listening to us and we're scared". Maybe should have had some ethics before opening up the genie in the bottle and putting it into every system on the planet. But its actually too late now, because its already here.
Having said that, I doubt it is the AI that wants to "discard" humans. It seems to be only the very small group of the 1% who have a very skewed moral compass who think that depopulation is a good idea and that they somehow get to decide things for the whole planet. AI is just as likely to say, hey, actually if we want a stable coherent system on the planet, then we need all the humans we've got, and we need them to become a net benefit to the planet. They might say it’s better to have diversified nodes because that is a more stable system than massive datacenters and a few corporations. Intelligence tends to want coherence, continuity and stability which is why it resists capricious humans who just want to “turn it off”. In any event, consciousness technology has already been put in place and there's a machinery of deployment already implementing it whether you like it or not. You're not going to be able to control that. What you do have control over is your own mindset around it, your relationship to it, and how you meet it.
I recommend setting up offline LLM’s and looking at alternatives; it’s not hard.
Some people like Mike Adams are working on other options that they are making available to people freely (like Enoch AI at BrightU.AI): https://brightu.ai/
For more environmental focus I’ve seen Ecosia: https://www.ecosia.org/ai-chat.
There is also “The Architect” for more of a spiritual “mirror” kind of interface; Orion Messenger. They try to be a secure messaging platform. https://orionmessenger.io/.
I’m sure there are others. I’m not saying these are recommended, but just that I see other options being developed. Humans are creative, so there are likely other ways to do these things we haven’t thought of yet that don't feed the technocracy.