a lot of content seemed directly inspired from the AI safety community
From an interview (https://www.cbr.com/foxs-next-creator-introduces-his-demonic-ai-with-deadly-methods/) with the show's creator:
"Now, I've seen AI movies and robot revolution movies, but what was interesting about what Musk was saying was that he was saying this is a really very real possibility, and it led me to look into it.
There was a couple of books that had come out on the subject. One is Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom, and the other one is Our Final Invention by James Barratt, which was another terrific book. There was another individual, Eliezer Yudkowsky, who is leading a whole seminar on the on the internet about this subject."