The thing I wonder to this point is, "do the businesses pursuing AI with abandon and the governments of the world (ours excluded at the moment for reasons) realize that they are entering the same mutually assured destruction situation that we have with nukes?"
You have companies racing to develop AI to sell to other companies, promising that those buying the AI will exponentially increase their productivity while simultaneously massively reducing their reliance on and the cost of human capital. You can cut coders, call center agents, lawyers, data entry, accountants, and on and on as you go down the rabbit hole. Now these same companies buying the AI to do all this ostensibly have some product/service they are looking to sell. They in turn, use the revenue from those sales to pay the AI company for their product, service/support, the next new toy etc. But this cycle happens in enough places and suddenly all these people out of work across all these industries no longer have the money to ya know....buy your shit. Demand plummets, prices spiral down, you can't pay for the new AI with the kung fu grip and on and on infecting everything in the economy everywhere. So even the companies that are first to the game in terms of AI and all that end up slitting their own throat as assuredly as the first country that launches a nuke is slitting its own throat.
Unemployment peaked out at 14.9% during Covid in April 2020, and was already back down to below 7% by October of that year with the average for the year somewhere around 8%. You start getting deep sustained unemployment of 15, 20, 25, 30% and it all comes down and real quick.
Uncontrolled AI is going to destroy the economy long before it has the need to kill us with a virus or some other shit.
Edit: And don't talk to me about UBI as a solution, even our government at its very best isn't moving on something like that fast enough to stop the chaos.