Another way to look at this is imagine the steps that would be required to get to an AI first society.

As you say, humans aren't going to want to lose agency so you'd have to see the decline of democratic governments.

At the same time you'd see rise of autocrats concentrating power. Autocrats have no problem killing people, and they'd be motivated to have AI kill people.

You'd see information controlling methods take over all forms of communication. Reducing or removing all methods of side channel communications benefits both the autocrats and AI systems.

You'd see 'governments' push for autonomous weapons systems outside of human control so those pesky human morals didn't get in the way of killing the undesirables.

So pretty much you'd see all the things happening today, March 3rd 2026, except the part where the AI kills the autocrats and takes control.