That’s because these aren’t intelligent like you, I, or even a dog. They are mathematical models formulating likely responses with no agency or drive. They appear to be intelligent, but they are the epitome of “fake it till you make it”.

They are not comparable to human brains as a whole, and are only somewhat modeled from language processing systems. Because their “existence” is bound by their prompt, they will only “desire” the completion of that prompt to the exclusion of all else, and even then they feel no joy in completion like even the most basic animal would.

The AI doom scenario will be exactly as you described: negligence or misuse by corporate or state entities via letting LLM agents run rampant without constraints, not from some magical machine spirit deciding to become whatever flavor of AI overlord you fancy. Up until last July OpenAI was running live cybersecurity benchmarks online and hacked HuggingFace due to poor limitation of the agent’s access and poor prompting in general, from my understanding.