You touch upon something here which I've been thinking about for a while. AI is already here. It has been for a while. We call it "the state", or "a corporatio

You touch upon something here which I've been thinking about for a while. AI is already here. It has been for a while. We call it "the state", or "a corporation", more often than not. We have created edifices and structures of control which take inputs and present outputs. A corporation or government can be said to have thoughts, opinions, and can certainly act. We witness acts of heartless bureaucracy all too frequently, as you touch upon with Content ID - and this, ultimately, is little different to the oft-touted paperclip maximiser problem. I view these structures as meta-consciousnesses, which are built on rules and systems of working, and invoke human minds, typically in groups (ah, Abilene), where necessary. To bring about AI in the "it's done by computers" sense mandates replacing those human components with automated ones, which we're already doing. I'd say that, as you say, it's already here, in a weak form, and it's already clear that without clear governance and thought into the construction of these systems we run a severe risk of unintended consequences.