[meltyness]

Law is artificial intelligence, so technically we're already in one of those scenarios in most of the world.

Law records what most people have expressed is desirable behavior in society.

Presumably the extremely adjacent concept of knowledge which may be encoded into DNA may also be thought of in this way, so that even under "the law of the jungle".

DNA records what forms can survive and replicate in a given environment.

... "AI takeover" is already the status quo.

[dragonwriter]

All current humans are intelligence created by other humans, so its just AI all the way down.