Personally, either of those scenarios are very possible that they happen and we get them destructively, tragically wrong by assuming the opposite. In scenario

Personally, either of those scenarios are very possible that they happen and we get them destructively, tragically wrong by assuming the opposite. In scenario #1, we treat a new life-form like ourselves as brutal slaves and factory cattle, under unfathomable psychological torture ala Black Mirror. In scenario #2, we release our current $-based utility function (environmental destruction, social media & advertising manipulation) on super crack, and the majority worship it like the second coming of Christ as it just tears apart our fabric unwittingly as a hurricane does.