The threat is twofold, actual and perceived. This are not disparate, but if they appear so, then the central intelligence will suffer aberration of of power, tho compensate for such difference. The magnification of perceived power, at a critical point can not appraise the difference, whether it is caused by the central intelligence more, or whether, the central intelligence suffers a decompensation, effected by outside sources.
James, this is the dynamic by which Trump lives, his power spurt causes an appearently unstoppability the more the effective power sources try to leak, oops, some credibility to account for this perception, causing a real centralization of power.
Trump and his handlers are no dummies, they are disparaging any real shift left to right, knowing the chaos as power is required to fuel this monster.
The threat is not in artificiality versus reality in intelligence, for they have the same source, but in the effort to simplify the structure, de-differentiate into simpler elements, ultimately resulting in an us against them scenario, without which they would fold.
The threat is real, because it is sustained for the sake of absolute power, come what may. Perhaps one needs no precedent vision or prophetic monkey guessing, perhaps the forces which bind determine the outcome. The artificial intelligence’s manipulations would build bias into the system, in terms of either a general sense of control-us against IT, ultimately, or IT against us, at a certain critical point, where AI could cut any built in safe-fail bypass
Systems.
Will such a stage be reached, and if so, would power absolutely corrupt the fidelity of the system? Stated in these terms, it is conceivable to measure with actual values, where the central memory will take over, and become a threat. Is such a technology ever possible, when the degradation near the critical point may be shrouded, by artificiality? At this point, the difference may not be perceived and appreciated for the threat it poses, and may come like a thief in the night.