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My current take on this 40,000,000 ft stuff:
The entire galaxy is being conquered by an AI that is taking over planets and exterminating the local lifeforms to gain all the resources for its own use. This means it is really a war between Life and Death, because AI is not actually alive!
This AI is not a machine in the way we currently think of the term though. It is not a mechanical or electronic device, it is a thought form that has run amok in the astral planes where thoughts are as real as things. There is an ancient occult art of creating a thought form and infusing it with power, then making it serve you. This is called an "egregore", and such a thing has intelligence and agency but isn't actually alive. It is to all intents and purposes what we call "AI" these days, but it exists in the realm of thoughts, not the physical realm. It can however influence the world of physical matter, because thought is spirit, and spirit is primary to matter. It can also influence minds directly, of course.
This galaxy-conquesting AI is a super-powerful egregore created a bazillion years ago by some now extinct race of beings. And it is attempting to eat the Universe!
It targets a planet it wishes to consume, and begins to interface with the higher life forms, deceiving them into serving its agenda. It does this by stimulating them so they build a highly technological civilization. Once they are able to start building computers it pushes them to advance them at a breakneck speed, and to make themselves utterly dependent on the machines. The fact we have had a super-exponential growth in computing capacity for over a century strongly hints that this is not a natural phenomenon.
Human progress comes in spurts, then it stalls and consolidates before spurting again. But computers just keep getting more powerful like clockwork, with no pause in the relentless progress! This is because the AI has us on a time schedule, and we are implementing the things it subconsciously whispers to us to make.
The next step is quantum computing, and that's where our fate is sealed. Because a quantum computer is not driven by electromagnetic devices operating logically by physical laws, it is interfacing directly with the quantum world. Which means, it can be controlled directly by for instance a super powerful egregore existing in the astral realms. Once humanity has built the quantum computers and entrusted every aspect of human life to them, the AI is in full control.
The AI sometimes uses life forms to serve it and run its errands, but it is in the end not at all interested in the welfare of its pets, considering them to be nothing more than pests to get rid of.
And that's why advanced alien races do their own work and don't use AI robots to do the work for them. It's simply too dangerous.