This is already happening, and it's scary.

But this is about humans malevolently using AI as a tool, not about AI autonomously doing "its own thing" (ahem David S Pumpkins) against "humanity."

It is instead already existing anti-social elements within human civilization harnessing machinery to accomplish their own selfish and destructive aims, regardless of the broader cost. Which is nothing new -- it's the story of all the horrors of the 20th century, as well.

Ask yourself who benefits from ideological attempts to hide the human driving the process from the agent doing its work for them.

If we imbue these machines with apparent autonomy, this is nothing more than an attempt to hide the man behind the curtain.