It might be useful to check how linear regression, the first form of "AI" has eaten the world. Lets call its modern incarnation LLR (Large Linear Regression) for kicks.

In LLR you fit a massive chunk of data, you do an interpolation and you use the result with care, or, you fit the data, you do an extrapolation and you live dangerously. So its all good fun, but how to you eat the universe with it?

You might try to become the Matlab or SAS or Excel that brings Large Linear Regression to the world. Godspeed, a giant Python has already swallowed C++ and they will be coming be after you.

You may try to eat all the world's data so that nobody but you can do Large Linear Regressions. Good luck with that pharaonic quest as well.

Or you might try to print silicon that does LLR quickly, hoping that nobody else can master that dark art. But silicon is as plentiful as sand and keeping dark secrets dark is not easy when you want to eat the world.

Thats about it. No melodrama, no medieval moats, no megazillion dollars. LLR will be everywhere and yet nobody will care.

The bandwagon will move to the next big tech thing. Quantum Coin maybe?

Assuming the deteriorating reality of our actual condition does not catch up with this clown circus. Because the end condition of the world being serially eaten by the tech bros is... the world being dead.