Plato gave a better response with his allegory of the cave:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
Any information an AI has access to has been extracted from text, which isn't all that different to shadows on a cave wall in the ways that matter.
Not so in the domains of computer operation, programming, and mathematical reasoning where RL and self-distillation can be used. Presumably beyond that but those at least can be done at a large scale.
No doubt they'll be going to war too soon,-- they already are if you count propaganda!