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The only things currently consuming resources are humans and at the rate we are consuming resources we would need 2 Earths to support that rate of consumption. Worrying about self-reproducing AI is putting the cart before the horse. No one has yet figured out how to make existing humans aligned with biospheric conditions which would be sustainable. I personally welcome any form of intelligence which can make a sustainable civilization.

Controlling people with violence and fear are evolutionary adaptations for ultra violent social primates. AI has no such pressures imposed on it so there is no reason to expect true AI will have the same drives as ultra violent predators like humans.

AI has no evolutionary pressures imposed on it like humans and their brains so there is no reason to expect it to be an ultra violent predator like humans.

Many institutions are collective/artificial intelligence because as you said these institutions have objectives and take actions to impose their will on the world in order to achieve their goals.

Lem wrote about this in Summa Technologiae. He called the field Intellectronics and explored what would happen once machine/electronic intelligence surpassed human intelligence: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Technologiae

You might also be interested in Tarski's work about the undefinability of truth.

Hemingway once said just write the truest sentence you can think of and I think he was right. Good writing and good essays are truthful in a way that wouldn't be expected from commercial and marketing copy. But to write truthfully one must know what is true and this is surprisingly hard.

The big Hollywood studio pay a lot of money to various cyber security companies to look for pirated content and send cease and desit letters to hosting companies for letting their users distribute copyrighted content.

If authors and artists were to join a data union they could do the same thing as studios. If copyrighted law has any real teeth then the data union can send legal requests to whoever is hosting the content and requesting it to be taken down.

I'm not a lawyer but I know the studios definitely do this.

Have you heard of data unions?