I think this realization has made me think that this is also how it is inevitably going to pan out.

Just as Mutually Assured Destruction MAD was the odious solution to keep nuclear warfare from happening, Singularly Assured Dominion is going to be the plan for AI, unless we can be really clever in a short time span.

People's optimism hasn't worn off yet because these systems are only just getting to a point where people realize how dangerous they are.

I'm planning to write a paper on this topic... probably with the help of GPT3 to help make the point.