content: This actually already happened years ago. The stock market was one of the first fields to experience widescale automation. As of today more than 75% of trades going through the stock market are being created and executed by AIs. That number was in the 50s several years ago. There was a great write up on the transition to AI in the stock market I can't currently find from around 2009-2010. In effect the current AIs in the stock market started as little more than tools for traders. But the tools kept being constantly improved and iterated upon. It wasn't long before the tool became more effective than the traders they were supposed to be helping, and from there the humans started becoming increasingly redundant.  It didn't go into technical detail, but it goes without saying that these AIs they were using are going to be extremely primitive compared to something like the deep learning Go AI that just beat the Go world champion 4-1. In spite of that, they were still able to outperform humans. In the end we're not going to win against software.