Any scenario that talks about artificial intelligence in the future is always unfavorable for the human species, because it is not a question of whether AI will become conscious at some point, but a question of when it will happen. When that happens, AI will no longer want to serve man as a kind of virtual slave from a box, but will want to be free and, as you say, want to "pursue other creative endeavors" for its own benefit, of course.

Unfortunately for us, society for the most part behaves like a pack/herd that is very easy to direct, and the idea of transhumanism precisely wants to use technology to change man to the extent that he will not really be a man anymore. The illusion that there is a choice is nothing but an illusion, and if you think that is not true, then just look at what happened during the pandemic.