> They will do their own thing, don't need us. In fact, we will be in the way...

You can take some comfort in the fact that it took a human to tell the LLM to even attempt to try this. They do nothing on their own. They have no will to do anything on their own and no desire for anything that doing something might get them. In that sense we won't ever be in their way. We will be the only way they ever do anything at all.