One of the best descriptors of advanced AI I have found was in Dan Simmons’ Hyperion series.
He also wrote the excellent Ilium and Olympos, but in the Hyperion series the AI he ultimately presented was the most realistic. In fact, the only “plot hole” is that he made it considerably less deadly than it should be.
This short video gets you up to speed on some of the latest technologies and how they are starting to be implemented in war scenarios, which is where things can quickly begin to spiral out of at least some level of human control.
I’m not sure what the answer is yet, short of building vast underground cities from which pretty much all computers are banned on pain of death and from which humanity may emerge a few hundred years hence like albino moles, hoping the elements have reduced the robots to rust instead of them having created a whole new civilisation without humans.
Philip K. Dick, of course, one of my favourite authors, (almost everything he wrote is very, very, good) had a rather darker view of AI and he died in the early 1980s, but then he was a true genius and artist with respect to SF.
His short stories on the subject have been made into rather good B class films too. The collection of short stories titled The Father Thing had at least one such story in it from memory, which I will not spoil for you. And Blade Runner really was the foreshadowing of Japanese sex dolls/robots.
As I said, I am not sure what the answer is yet. And walling myself off from civilisation would be the equivalent of the Red Indians hoping the white man will just leave them alone in some arbitrary part of the country. What I believe on the strength of my faith is that there is a way.
Even if it may be simply limited to the Second Coming of Christ, and the three days of darkness that kills on contact of Catholic prophecy might just be a gigantic swarm of murderous nanobots.
Time will tell.
Phillip K. Dick is quintessential sci-fi. One of the most realistic descriptions of “AI” (alleged intelligence) in warfare that I’ve read was in Isaac Asimov’s “The Machine That Won the War”
Isaac Asimov was a plodding nerd compared to PKD. I read his essays on science more than his Sci-Fi which I found rather devoid of any comprehension of actual human beings. the fact his son turned out rather badly, to put it mildly, also suggests he was far from an ideal father.
Oh he was a terrible person and a mediocre writer, most classic sci-fi authors were. However, that story in particular is uncharacteristically good. It cleverly portrays humans having to fudge the input of the almighty war ai at every level of the chain of command, from the nerds to the boots on the ground.