show us the approximate path to get there
I can't. I openly and freely admit that. You, however, cannot credibly claim a.) said path does not exist b.) your path is even necessary for "AI" to be a threat.
It's just talk. No facts. Nothing measurable. Nothing credible. Just panic, ignorance and speculation.
What we know is this: machines are advancing rapidly. All of this is still nascent muddling with machines that are, themselves, getting more powerful by the day, using algorithms that are getting more efficient by the day. What will we have in 10 years when NVidia is selling N4200X's on 13pm nodes and the descendants LLMs or what have you have seen a dozen more breakthrough level iterations?
You don't know. I don't know. Further, anyone claiming to know is making shit up and should be treated accordingly.