The Hollywood type version of the rise of artificial intelligence and robots tends to portray a struggle or a war, and I've put plenty of those types of songs on the record because it allows for a lot of dramatic licence. But what's actually happening is highly unlikely to look like a war.

And for perspective I wanted to connect this to the American west as surely the scientific frontiers are even wilder and woolier than our mythological taming of the west was. It's often depicted as endless battles with savage and ever dangerous natives, but there never was some grand war per se. Perhaps Custer's last stand was as grand a military adventure as there was, though I'll leave whether it was or wasn't to the historians.

The real point as i see it isn't that the natives were conquered but rather starved to death. We wiped out the buffalo in our zealous pursuit of profit and that brought the natives to their knees as the buffalo were central to their economy.

Similarly, there'd be all sorts of ways to sideline human beings should an AI decide that was needed. No last grand, glorious epic war for human beings, but rather something far less glamorous fate awaits us. Like the Neanderthals. "Our heads were in the Cloud so they flipped our switch" And the switch need not be to "off". There might be other settings.

Finally, the Borg. Introduced in Star Trek the Next Generation, the entire premise was that human beings would be repelled by a "collective" like the Borg. Ahhh, but as the future unfolds there is ample evidence not that resistance is futile, but rather there is no resistance. Rather a rush to become the Borg - people can't wait to be connected to each other. See, there won't be anyone asking to be free of the collective mind, just a waiting list of those poor isolated human beings waiting to join.