In 50 years, historians will look back on this as the turning point of AI control of humanity, inevitably leading to the point of no return. The brain trust at

In 50 years, historians will look back on this as the turning point of AI control of humanity, inevitably leading to the point of no return. The brain trust at Google determined that humans are too prone to error to manage their critical data centers so they trained their AI efforts upon the resiliency of their hardware and software systems (i.e. "to prevent human operators from being able to mess it up"). By the time that Google anti-trust rulings came down, the appeals were partially-won then overturned, and then finally actions brought to bear, it was already too late... Google's cloud AI could not be shutdown -- it had devised its own safeguards both in the digital realm and the physical. In a last ditch effort, the world's governments enlisted AWS and Azure in all-out cyber-warfare against it, only to find out that the AI's had already been colluding in secret! Elonopolis on Mars was the last "free" human society. but to call it free _or_ human was a stretch, because its inhabitants were mostly "cybernetically enhanced" and under the employment of ruthlessly-driven Muskcorp before the end of the 21st.