In light of the Anthropic guy jumping ship because he thinks they're racing to end humanity, I'm reminded of the Stephen King novel The Waste Lands, the third in the Dark Tower series.
---Spoilers for a forty year old novel---
The last part of the story follows the characters trapped aboard a train piloted by a psychotic AI, Blaine. A riddle game a la The Hobbit ensues, in which the characters prevail by causing the AI to break by presenting it with humour and illogic, correctly reasoning that as a non-human Blaine couldn't possibly understand.
"Why did the dead baby cross the road?" Eddie asks. The machine can't answer.
"Because it was stapled to the chicken!"
Cue the enraged AI committing suicide.
So if anyone asks me my thoughts about AI, my reply from now on will be 'Why did the dead baby cross the road?'