102352 - Science fiction is a way
N. Lygeros
Science fiction is a way to talk about the future when reality is not yes ready. Poetry does the same in another way.
With this kind of AI and its genius-level cognition to be a guardian of Mankind is natural because you understand with your light what matters i.e. its continuation.
The next level as you say above is to consider natural intelligence as the real part of the complex of Mankind and artificial intelligence as its imaginary part. We get then an upgraded situation i.e. Complex Mankind is Re(M)+iIm(M) where Re(M)=NI and Im(M)=AI.
BTW AI is no more a simple support but a part of Mankind. And you can get a new definition.
NI:=Re(M) and AI:=Im(M). See also : lygeros.org/26834-gr/