With that out of the way, it is self evident that a super intelligent AI, should one be developed, will likely cause an exponential increase in knowledge and technology and this would likely be an extremely destabilizing event in human history. The truth is the super intelligence doesn't have to go all terminator to likely kill off humanity as I could not possibly see us responsibly navigating a singularity event as a species.
With that out of the way, the study and practice of Philosophy was, until the 19th century, the means by which many scientific discoveries or theories were made, including those for electricity, magnetism and gravity.
But times have changed.
For thousands of years, humans armed with philosophy made a snail's progress in the natural understanding of our world. Then science came about and it was like a mini-singularity. It was not philosophy that created science, it was the utter failure of philosophy to describe the natural world around us that created the right conditions for the scientific method to be developed, and it so happens the scientific method is wholly incompatible with philosophy.
Philosophy's one chance to be relevant to the understanding of the natural world ended with the death of logical positivism, aka that branch of philosophy that thought it ought to try to actually verifiably prove it's claims. Philosophers threw logical positivism away when they realized that philosophy of any kind couldn't actually prove anything about the world around us and instead of realizing that the entire field of formal philosophy is about as useful as screen door on a submarine, they sweeped logical positivism under the rug and agreed it was all a very bad idea(TM).