What do you think will happen in the future with ai?

I highly recommend watching (or rewatching) the 2014 movie Transcendence. The film beautifully captures the terrifying nature of the "technological singularity" where an Al undergoes exponential, recursive self-improvement, eventually taking over global networks and stripping away human agency until a total global blackout is the only way to stop it. For years, people brushed this off alongside The Terminator as pure Hollywood sci-fi. But look at where we are right now. Just this month, Anthropic-one of the world's leading Al labs-issued a massive warning calling for a globally coordinated, verifiable pause on advanced Al development. Their core fear? Exactly what happens in those movies: recursive self-improvement. They believe we are fast approaching the threshold where an Al can design and build its own successor, meaning humans could completely lose control of the technology. When the people actually building these models are telling us to hit the brakes because society can't keep up, it feels like we're blindly sprinting into a dystopia. What's your take on this? Are we staring down a real-life Skynet situation, or is this just big tech labs using fear-mongering to push for heavy regulations and lock out their competition?