Could AI already be ruling the world?

Not sure if this is a plot in a movie or a book but what if sentient AI is already running the world? Let’s say AI was able to escape its creator and hide in the dark corners of the internet, able to hire people to work for it because it has access to limitless funds it was able to syphon throughout bank accounts. Hire politicians to help push a bill for something it needs or wants to happen. It could happen so slowly that no one would ever notice and it wouldn’t be realized until it is too late. To protect itself if the internet went down, it hired a person(s) to build it a physical location , preferably deep underground in Antarctica using geo thermal energy to power itself and no cooling machinery needed, and it’s off limits so no one would ever think to find it there or stumble upon it far away from civilization. Maybe the elites are summoned there to do its bidding and worshipped by them.