After reading your comment, I went and read this book. Both terrifying and inspiring. Clearly illustrating two extremes, but it’s obvious in which general direction we’d rather veer. And algorithms as bosses isn’t it. Thanks for the recommendation!

I guess that's one way a Culture-like society could get started. Thanks for the link!

Or destroyed. They both have highly advanced AIs. And unstable societies have a tendency to spread their instability.