The system most likely to take control of your life will not threaten you.
It will offer to help.
I’ve come to appreciate that delivering software is not just having a few “10x developers”. One needs QA, marketing, field engineers, and other roles. It really is a group effort.
If 90% of the software engineers and QA were replaced by someone dispensing their intent to an AI, what’s the rest supposed to do?
In society, we have an entire ecosystem of unrelated professions that depend on each other.
A truly dystopian future would be everyone lazing around at home, living on UBI, watching AI-generated television and movies.