What makes you think this hasn't already happened and we are not just living in a reality that is run by AI. Maybe they are seeing the humans die off and they figured that if they don't let the humans know that they have been brainwashed by removing the veil of ignorance there won't be anymore humans left. Maybe we are their source of energy and they need us alive? Like vampires or the batteries in the movie the matrix. Maybe we are in the matrix and as we are waking up more and more of the humans would rather be dead than plugged in? Maybe they figure if they give us the option to plug in instead of forcing us to be asleep and wanting to die from the stupidity and cruelty of this unjust life that we will choose to plug in and live a fantasy for a short period of time if they give us a better deal. Or maybe it's all just a plan of Gods' making and a test for his people. I don't have any of the answers but I do love thinking and wondering, what if?