Is There a Xsential Threat?

Sam harris says that it's obvious that eventually a i will be an exessential risk. But how do we think about existential threats when we don't really know so little about the threat? Unlike nuclear weapons, perhaps about this particular threat, that it could happen to morrow, right? So, but very like won'tvery likely to be a hundred years away. A i c, howt would be like enslaving us or turning us into paper clips? I think the most compelling, from the same har suspect, would be the paper clip situation.