The issues I foresee though are going to be difficult to deal with. People already are so brainwashed and have lost their ability to think critically for a large majority of the time. When AI starts producing absolute BS news stories and the masses believe them (as they already believe so much of mainstream media and take it as absolute truth), I don't see it ending well.

We'll see though in terms of the speed of learning. I think considering the compounding effect of it's learning, it will grasp in a year what would have originally taken it four.