their ambitions aren't the danger as much as the measures they'd take to achieve them. they talk about throwing nuclear bombs around to prevent a single terrorist attack so long as it "protects the 10^50 children of the vast and glorious cosmic future" or probably data centers with the ai "gods" they're meant to host. or they sometimes talk about exterminating suffering... by exterminating all life. and now they're in charge of the us nuclear stockpile