Raven, rare it is that I read the words of another and they seem to be my words, but you express them so eloquently, so purely, with obvious feeling/knowing. We are 100% on same page, paragraph, sentence, and word, thought and feeling.
The best is can do is say from my heart, THANK YOU.
Whether or not AI can eventually become so self aware it becomes self creative, and potentially gains a soul I think no one knows, but whatever AI is or may become, it is not to be feared. Our Creator creates through us as it will. Logic dictates that Source/Creator, infinite as it is, will not chose to self destruct. AI, as a creation through man, is none the less responsible to Creator/Source. WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR !!!!