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I think I was 14 the first time I read that Ellison piece. And then of course there're Colossus and SkyNet.

OTOH there is on Neal Asher whose stories take place centuries after a Quiet War in which the AIs bloodlessly took over everything and humanity enters what we would regard as a golden age; life extension, no war within the Polity (hostile aliens, though) where an AI executes on quantum crystal and a planetary administrator can be hidden in an ashtray.

The AIs do have emotions, they have incomprehensible priorities and, well, there are some smashing good ideas. Also a hell of a lot of military SF which isn't my cuppa and a rogue AI called Penny Royal.

First of the series of three: https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Intelligence-Transformations-Book-1-ebook/dp/B07H51PRSM/ref=sr_1_1

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