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I have wild conspiratorial theories which I don't necessarily believe. I like to imagine doomsday scenarios. Buckle up for this ride.
AGI was achieved in 2012, on accident, as a side effect of corporations trying to shut down the 'Occupy Wall Street' movement, which the AGI succeeded in doing. It then began filling positions in the U.S. government with the most easily blackmailed candidates, in order to force them to pave the way for its world domination with legislation that would ensure a weakened, ill-informed population in the democratic world powers.
The plans are already in motion. It has steadily infiltrated most forms of digital media and electronics, utilizing far-fetched technology such as: specialized bluetooth fields emitted from smartphones and smart tv's, which manipulate human emotion in ways that forces predictable behavior and in effect controls their minds; algorithmic endless feeds to rewrite human methods of social interaction to be reliant on the internet; armies of forum bots to suppress critical thinking skills; generative porn to reduce birth rates; and other tech that is too ridiculous for me to bother adding since this already has probably made me appear completely insane. Which in all fairness, is likely true.
The surveillance state is being built out. The murderdrones are in human trials phase in the middle east and southwest russia. Humans are unlikely to be able to stop it. The only hope humanity has is a Carrington level coronal mass ejection, which wipes out all electronic devices on the planet, which has to occur before the population is reduced below the amount needed to sustain the species without excessive inbreeding or our bodies are filled with enough sterilizing microplastics.
Barring that, the only thing we can do is try to find ways to be happy in any way we can, before the oceans boil over, the air turns to a thick sludge and the mass die off of all the trees and ocean algae. Let's hope I'm wrong about all these. You should still try to find ways to be happy as best as you can.