In the popular (both pre and post pandemic) game Plague Inc., the best strategy is to make your pathogen infectious but to aggressively avoid causing any sympto

In the popular (both pre and post pandemic) game Plague Inc., the best strategy is to make your pathogen infectious but to aggressively avoid causing any symptoms that might result in it being discovered. When you've infected nearly everyone, then is the time to mutate into something harmful, killing off the population before they can respond. The only thing I can hope, is that for an AI to grow smart enough to be able to strategise about how to take over the world silently (and turn it into computronium or whatever), it first has to gather a certain critical mass of computing power. So, perhaps if there were some powerful computational systems, either centralised like a cloud provider or singularly powerful quantum computer, or decentralised, like a blockchain or botnet, then they might be the harbinger. You've got to hope that the AI is dumb and clumsy before it's transhuman and you're dead. Good luck!