AI has no autonomous goals or personal ambition. The only way they would "take over" in any sense is if people give them a goal that drives them to that direction and give them access to freely access any system.

What needs to stop is people doing exactly that. The setup of, "Look, I gave my AI a goal and system access!" is exactly the wrong thing to do. As we've seen already with the various anecdotes of people's LLMs destroying their data.

There are a plethora of tools and systems in this world that can do great harm if used improperly. AI is now one of them. We need people to start thinking about them in that context. "This is a tool. There are helpful ways to use it and harmful ways to use it. I should take care to stay on the helpful side."