Nation First has made an interesting point worth noting here about the AI threat. While it can be argued that AI has not surpassed human intelligence just yet researchers are attempting to make AI using human brain tissue. Work on this Dr Frankenstein idea is occurring in Australia with complete disregard of the moral consequences, as seems to be the standard now with AI research. The justification is that we are in a new type of arms race with China and Russia, who do not care a jot abut morality, so unless the West does this research, it will be done by the enemies, who will use it against the West.
I call this the AI very slippery slope. It seems a real and present danger with no easy solution since it is a fact that communist China and Russia will not be constrained by moral or theological considerations. This situation is known as the parable of the tribes: