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The machine uprising is bullshit. Sorry.A few gigabytes of linear algebra are not remotely sentient. It is a remarkable Chinese room, but it is a Chinese room after all.
Behind the bullshit are the usual faces. Rich fuckers, imperialists, egoists, people who want to be praised as living gods while their serfs suffer. History of mankind in a nutshell.
If you want to be scared, be scared about WW3, climate change, ecosystem collapse, that kind of thing. Or even the trivial-ization of propaganda with AI. But the AI is not the issue, we had propaganda telling you your fellow human is an animal before, worked just fine.
What helps? Go out, do things. It feels futile, it probably is, but it helps. Go volunteer, help a political movement, that kind of thing.
Machines don't need intelligence to summon a machine uprising, humans just need to have a system that is too complex to understand how it works and let it automate everything because of human stupidity and laziness and we will all turn into paper clips, in fact, these are not paper clips, I don't know what can actually happen, but paper clips are a good example, In my opinion.
Otherwise, I agree with you, but routine doesn't always help, but I think I'll try volunteering.
No, machines don't need intelligence to fuck us up. Remember that one famous cold war incident were the Soviet computer (falsely) thought the Americans had launched nukes, and if it wasn't for one brave guy refusing to launch, we would all be dead now?
But I still don't think "AI" by itself is that big of an issue. The biggest problem I see is propaganda, increased automation leading to a class of replaceable, poor workers like at the beginning of the industrial age, and "thinking fatigue" caused by reliance on the bullshit machines.
But actually kill us? Nah. That is still reserved for the classics, like nuclear war, climate change, or maybe some good old-fashioned plague. Who knows, I haven't heard of any major volcanoes lately, too.
Routine does not always help. But being around people helps. Helping other people helps. Even if you recognise that all your efforts are ultimately futile. Think of it this way: we all die at the end, anyway. At the very latest when the sun goes poof, or the universe becomes lukewarm, equally-spaced emptiness. But if you help make someone's life a little bit better, then that is still good. And if we all help to make someone else's life better, then maybe life wouldn't be so miserable.
On the how: join a group that aligns with your values and has people you vibe with, from NGOs like Red Cross or voluntary firefighters, to a soup kitchen, or an animal shelter. Maybe even a political party or movement.
Yeah, do as I say not as I do. I am a coward, lazy, cynic misanthrope myself. But when things become too much, I found this often makes me feel better.