> Best I've come up with is we'll need to be adopted by technofeudlaist overlords to be our patrons like in the roman days

Continually progressing AI (combined with our current socioeconomic systems) throws a lot of uncertainty into our mid to long term future, but I don't think this is going to be what happens.

There are billions more of "us" than of "them", people don't respond well en masse to a drastic worsening of their societal status and "they" are lagging very far behind on building their robot armies.

If we poorly navigate this transition the outcome should be worrying them more than it worries us.

Humans aren't sheep but in the broad average it seems like we have a strong tendency to fall inline.

Fwiw I was mostly joking. I agree that the techno overlords have no reason to keep us, unlike in Roman times.

I don't know how you would translate the strength of a robot army to a human one; they haven't fought yet.