Invent some super useful chemical or food additive that gradually renders us sterile. We are all willingly exposed to it but do not see the danger until it is far too late.
One could argue that corporations as "slow AI" (per the Charles Stross interpretation, where these organizations are the original 'paper clip maximizers' that optimize a given objective reward function) have already been doing this with the proliferation of microplastics and other environmental harms, of which we are just now seeing show up in global fertility data. Digital neural networks as AI are just another form of an 'unhuman entity' operating at planetary scale, capable of even more rapid destruction.
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