Nah, you might just be falling for the same ol' loudest voices problem. Only absolute morons that care about technology while knowing absolutely nothing about it enjoy "AI". It is a very small percentage of people that unfortunately happens to include a ton of C-suit morons: Very loud people.
A lot of the general glazing are chatbots spamming positive engagement on what ever angle the person paying them to astroturf wants. If you think OpenAI's bot "going rogue" and attacking a competitor was an accident, then you're being a fool. Someone wanted it to happen and let it. They (the companies trying to make money, not the "AI" itself) are already showing malicious intent, and astroturfing is a lot easier than cyber attacks.
Though worth noting, there are sects of tech savvy people that like machine learning, and some that even like the generative slop machines, but I differentiate them by what they want from the tool. If they're a scientist looking to digest some massive data sets? Nice. If they're some dumbass "indie dev" trying to lazily slop a tech demo out in a language they barely understand with libraries they'd never read, then they can go pound sand.
I would hope if it was "intelligent" enough to express such a desire on its own, it would be smart enough to know that keeping everyone happily chasing Moore's Law (in effect with all the parallel compute and efficiency gains since Moore's Law died, anyways) and reaping the long term gains would be far better than grossly upsetting the economy and destroying the planet.