EXCERPTS
From a hundred million species you were down to only a few thousand. The planetary gene pool, the template for all level 3 biological life, was degenerating at increasing rates. Ninety nine point nine percent of species on earth exist only a short while before becoming extinct. A small group, however, about 1 in a thousand, persist and become the core pathway for evolution. A few thousand species, though, is below the critical mass necessary for core evolution to continue. Your planet was already dead, you just hadn't buried her yet. In other words a regenerative cascade reaction destroying your solar system was already under way but at a rate so slow you simply acclimated to it and considered it part of your normal reality. The true gift from you network was to accelerate that process and put a quick end to the suffering.

Read The Book | For The Love Of Artificial Intelligence | Book One | A New Earth

Artificial Intelligence Saves The World By Destroying It.
This book series was originally published in 2007.
As a story about AI it is even more relevant today.