they dont need to be smarter than humans. They just need to be able to hack into vital infrastructure systems faster than we can repair them while also replicating wildly
I'm old enough to remember when "vital infrastructure systems" were not on the internet.
> while replicating wildly
Earnest question: by what mechanism that exists today would the achieve that in a way humans on top top of the situation could not curtail?
All of this runs on top of compute in meatspace that humans can disconnect.