Wow that’s a really cool way to look at things, I have never thought about it like that. I see exactly what you mean, we are a small life form living upon earth that has had many huge disasters ever time, spilling out toxic chemicals, insane environmental change, species alterations etcetc, so maybe, again going back to your point of us being so primitive, we are just unable to realise he big picture and think this whole planet revolves around us when really earth would keep on rolling with or without us at any given moment :)

The point about AI you made too is great, just the same thing for earth!