AI exterminating us has been the realm of science fiction for decades, popularised by films like terminator and the matrix.
What sci-fi of the 1950s was showing world of environmental collapse - not nuclear war, not overpopulation.
What sci-fi of the 1950s was showing world of environmental collapse - not nuclear war, not overpopulation.
Maybe not the 1950s, but in the 1960s it became a well established trope. J G Ballard and Frank Herbert in particular lean heavily on themes of environmental destruction
If we count the Golem stories then the idea of a human made artificial servant rebelling against us because of our hubris is hundreds of years old.