AI is like an arrow, a trebuchet, a gun, a missile, a weapon to gain more power, to wage more wars and to terrorize people into submission, just like every new weapon before. No, the powerful won't listen to nobody, the universe doesn't have morals or ethics, it just have laws, and survival of the fittest is one of them.
The church is just playing the role they've always played, instilling weakness and fear while "siding" with the oppressed so they all can milk the sheeple. They are an institution of power, for power, and they behave like such, under sheep's clothes.