[astrange]

How would it get to that point? There's no connection between having an internet connection and ending the human race.

These are all sci-fi stories that come with unexamined assumptions that something "smart" and "optimal" is going to be invented that's so good at its job that you can ask it to do X and it's going to do completely impossible thing Y without running out of AWS credits first.

(I personally think that humans are not "optimal" and that an AGI will also not be "optimal" or else it wouldn't be "general". More importantly, I don't think AGIs are going to be great at their jobs just because they have computer brains, and this is clearly an old SF movie trope.)