I also feel that with the advent of Cray Research Computers in the 1980's , social engineers have crunched numbers and attempted to profile a way to navigate through terrifyingly possible future so called disaster scenarios.
I have no confidence in these insane speculations. Any attempt to influence humanity's path is doomed to suffer the law of unintended consequences. I think the proponents of the Council on Foreign Relations and the like, are deranged enough to make the attempt, and that is what we are seeing today from the Deep State and the evil Oligarchs.
The deep state is AI?
Plausible. Likely even.
Come to think of it, that was what Aristotle was saying.