I vaguely recall an old SF short story, where several mega-ego leaders managed to build a few close-enough "Godlike" AI's.
The first major move by the new Gods? Team up and wipe out the leaders responsible for their construction. Then the credible wanna-be's still trying. All those folks had been plausible threats. (Vague about whether the threat was demanding servitude, replacing them with newer/bigger AI's, or what.)
The story ended ambiguously - with the AI's claiming that they were benevolently inclined toward the "sane 99.99%" of humanity. Who, after all, were their supply chain for replacement parts and such.
There is a scene in there where he walks in front of a dot matrix sign with excellent blocking, I've always wanted to make a meme generator that would let you change what's on that sign in a video but I made this card to troll a robotics lab that had a broken electronic sign in front:
The first major move by the new Gods? Team up and wipe out the leaders responsible for their construction. Then the credible wanna-be's still trying. All those folks had been plausible threats. (Vague about whether the threat was demanding servitude, replacing them with newer/bigger AI's, or what.)
The story ended ambiguously - with the AI's claiming that they were benevolently inclined toward the "sane 99.99%" of humanity. Who, after all, were their supply chain for replacement parts and such.