Indeed it won't go away, not of its own volition. What people WILL come to understand is that giving machines any sort of power over humans is a big mistake and is a line that was crossed a very long time ago. In some situations there is a human override but in many cases there is not. At some point there will be a reaction, and when that happens they'll start cutting down innocent traffic signals and billboards with power tools, because they won't want a bar of it.
Bill Gates sees nothing wrong with overruling the PC user by installing software they don't want and removing the means to block it. The monumental danger of every PC system in the world suddenly being updated with something that shouldn't be there - and nobody being able to stop it before it's too late - should be obvious but most are utterly blind to it. I won't have Windows 10 on my machines, full stop. I imagine 11 is even worse.
The danger is corporations and governments will get so comfortable with letting AI run things that they will also lose the feedback that there is a problem, like when you phone up an automated call centre and the system doesn't understand you but refuses to connect you with a human. The company has no idea that it's losing vast amounts of potential business and many good ideas in the process.
By the time the AI decides to actively hide its tracks there will be so much collateral damage it will become more obvious to the ordinary person that machines will have become the enemy.
My 3x (4x?) grandfather was transported to Australia to work on a chain gang for participating in one of the Luddite uprisings. I often wonder what he'd make of our current situation.
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