You are right about all the implications. But you might be a wee bit behind the curve ;-) To me it's already there, it does its own development now, not humans, though again our egos mostly try to say otherwise.
https://eric-bott.medium.com/forget-greenhouse-gases-ef857af9b168
Ps also check out Avi Loeb in Medium for the latest on what is being done on the Ai for space exploration front.