Good story, keep it up.

Your story projects the dangers of AI's uncontrolled rise very well. Kudos! Especially the danger of humanity stepping back and allowing AI full, unsupervised growth and control. By the time it has derailed life, humans would have been left far behind. As can be expected of humans, they would not have kept abreast of technology by learning, and people would struggle to close the enormous gap created. A "dark" period, marked by worldwide chaos, and financial depression is likely when humanity attempts to fix the gap. You're right, we must only allow for slow, well-controlled, standards based AI development! Good work!!