In my opinion, the only way to stop the takeover of AI is to stop the leading reason to create it: the profit-led economy. If anyone has other ideas, I'd like to hear them.
We are already pushing ourselves to the abyss, maybe an AI will just accelerate the events.
Well, that's merely one reason. Military superiority would be another. Advanced surveillance would be another. There's probably more but those are two glaring ones that we already see government's like that of the USA pummeling huge amounts of money into its capabilities as it is.