You jest, but that has a good likelihood of becoming the watershed moment. The moment AI is bootstrapped to the point where it surpasses human ability to advance the AI SOTA, it's pretty much game over—from a Darwinian point of view at least.
And I have a hard time seeing any reason why that would be a matter of "if" rather than "when".
And I have a hard time seeing any reason why that would be a matter of "if" rather than "when".