Let's face it, if AI works then aligment will fail. The question we should ask instead: What deal should we cut the AI of the future, while we are still in power?
I think that is what is happening as we speak. Not so much AI coming into the world as something from the outside, but the way we think, that our minds work, changing permanently.
The big question for me is how to turn this into a force for good, rather than just staring at it in horror, or pretending it is not happening.