> something that looks like insider trading is a lot more likely.

Or maybe, our AI overlords would do legitimate hard work, earn money and buy all the companies we work for.

Presumably through a complex web of intermediaries, so that humans never notice.

Maybe, they don't directly control us, but just vote for board members that drive us in the direction they want us to go.

Would make for sci-fi... in practice AIs won't matter anytime soon.