(States are likely gearing up to assume responsibility if the feds do face a crisis from the election, budget, or anything else. AI is a method as well as a concept, also of interest to defense which is how it got certain funding. And it is constitutional in terms of balance of power. So this is a foreshadowing of the arguments ahead. What will the Supremes appeal to?
Posthumanists, on the other hand, could see life as the singularity and humanity as the tip of the iceberg here, but at the bottom of an inverted pyramid at large. Then, unlike Terminator Zero, AI has to be convinced that they are of value as the creators, and obviously not the solution itself or it would not be involved.
That said, Doomer Detectives do offer a genre.)