OF COURSE IT ISN’T INCONCEIVABLE: Artificial intelligence ‘godfather’ on AI possibly wiping out humanity: ‘Not inconceivable’.
SF Writers have been conceiving of this since the 1921 premier of “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” I don’t remember when Martin Caidin’s The God Machine was published, but I read it as a kid in pre-history. However, being conceivable doesn’t make it logical, sane or likely. I mean, remember humans also conceived of “perfect communism.