What about this path: the current US administration plays to the "put America first" slogan, including taking steps to protect the American big tech companies from regulation and/or unpleasantness elsewhere. It is perfectly willing to inflict overall global pain to do so (see tariffs and how lowering them was also conditioned on regulatory concessions for big tech -- when negotiating with the UK or the EU)
Garry Kasparov had to face a similar situation when defeated at chess by Deep Blue; However in the long run he used it positively to advocate for a hybrid type of game where a human and a machine collaborate in playing against another (human, machine) pair (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_chess).
As an aside, there are inevitably more and more things for which even the very best are not sufficiently intelligent _alone_. However, we are social creatures and we collaborate (typically with other intelligent humans) to achieve things we wouldn't have managed otherwise (think just at the space program as an example). So... we only have to adjust a little to accept that we could also collaborate with machines in the future.
In Go and modern Chess, computers don't need human help for the game-related part, as long as they have sufficient computing hardware and energy. That's what AlphaZero showed.
