Comment by ACCount37

Your food, water and power are controlled by electronic systems. Your criminal record, your employment and your bank account are controlled by electronic systems. Your ability to communicate with other people and receive information about what's going on are controlled by electronic systems.

Military orders and elections that decide the fates of entire countries are often controlled by electronic systems too.

We have been wiring up the world for AI control since 1980s.

An ASI can just walk in, and see an entire nervous system waiting idle for a brain to slot into it. A carefully adjusted text message here, a spoofed phone call there. For a sufficiently advanced system, it wouldn't even be hard to pilot the entirety of humankind like a fancy meat suit.