“Nobody is losing control of an emerging intelligence. They’re redirecting their own agency to the thing they are building.” It’s a myth, a self-affirming form of sense making: they take the action to build it, but insist on describing it as if they are passive witnesses to an inevitable force. More on what I mean by “the system from nowhere” in my latest: https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/the-system-from-nowhere/