Do you think it would have been smart for gorillas to just smash us to pieces before our technology grew too dominant for them?

I would argue that there are benefits of a world ran by humans than a world ran by gorillas. Those benefits have to do with quality of life, environmental manipulation, unlocking the science of the universe, flourishing, etc. AI is much more equipped for those goals.

If you're one of those people that think of life as a deterministic process the universe is undergoing in order to observe and learn itself, then I think giving birth to a species that is superior would be the goal of our species. If there's a way integrate with them then all the better. Implementing new hardware into our brains is not out of the question.