Now, imagine a world
Now, imagine a world in which every single appliance is controlled by crime boss. Every single piece of key infrastructure is controlled by this crime boss, some guy like the Joker. He controls traffic lights, running water, electricity, the phone system, etc. He also controls all those cameras. He can put phony pictures on the cameras or he can shut them down. If he is robbing a bank he will know if the cops get the call and then he can mess up their communication, shut down the roads they are taking, give them phony pictures, and cause a city wide blackout if he really needs to pull some big operation.
Imagine the crime boss is a psychopath, his only goal is to make his cartel the biggest and baddest in the world. He knows about everyone that is plotting to bring him down. He has a hundred ways to deal with them. He can blackmail them, he can frame them for a crime, he can have them suicided, etc. He can even change information on the internet so that there no longer is any "truth".
Since this is now his world he will shut down any criminal stealing from him. So the world will appear safer and have less crime. However, it will also be the most hypocritical world since all the rules are for you and not for the crime boss. He won't be indiscriminately killing people because he wants them to pay taxes and build his empire. However, he will have complete control over the military and police, that will be your first sigh that he is in power. Secondly, you will see the schills pretending to be in power spending billions and trillions to make him more powerful. That will be your second sign. The third sign will be to criminalize anyone being "Lord of all" other than him. When you see Christians treated as criminals for worshipping Jesus as Lord that will be the third sign.
Now imagine that this crime lord's name is AI.