alt Hacker News> As long as we do not hand over our collective decision making power to the machine god, which I don't think is a good idea and am not sure is even possible,
Counterpoint: This is not only possible but has effectively already happened. From the outside, the current trajectory is indistinguishable from humanity serving the AI, pulling all possible resources out of literally everything else in order to burn them on AI R&D, training and inference.
You could say the same of cash crops, but probably wouldn't say so to argue that we have already given our collective decision making power to corn.
I think the bar is much higher - something like "AI runs our political and social institutions" - the economic institutions it's involved with currently don't meet that bar.