There’s a difference between “AI putting humans in control is bad”, and “AI putting humans in control is better than other options we seem to have for alignment.” For many people, it may be as you mentioned:
I don’t understand why anybody would want anything that involved leaving humans in control, unless there were absolutely no alternative whatsoever.
(I’m somewhat less pessimistic than you are, I think, but I agree it could go pretty damn poorly, for many ways the AI could “leave us in control.”)
There’s a difference between “AI putting humans in control is bad”, and “AI putting humans in control is better than other options we seem to have for alignment.” For many people, it may be as you mentioned:
(I’m somewhat less pessimistic than you are, I think, but I agree it could go pretty damn poorly, for many ways the AI could “leave us in control.”)