Personally, either of those scenarios are very possible that they happen and we get them destructively, tragically wrong by assuming the opposite.

In scenario #1, we treat a new life-form like ourselves as brutal slaves and factory cattle, under unfathomable psychological torture ala Black Mirror.

In scenario #2, we release our current $-based utility function (environmental destruction, social media & advertising manipulation) on super crack, and the majority worship it like the second coming of Christ as it just tears apart our fabric unwittingly as a hurricane does.