If we continue on the blackbox path of "train, punish and hope it works" then that is true. But that doesn't need to be the case. Neither human or machine intel

If we continue on the blackbox path of "train, punish and hope it works" then that is true. But that doesn't need to be the case. Neither human or machine intelligence is magic (probably), so with sufficient understanding there isn't anything fundamentally in in the way of controlling it. Higher levels of social organisation are primarily about more sophisticated forms of control and organisation. Today we're already much better at it than 500 years ago.