>> the pushing of AI may be leading to a massive waste of money and resources

And massive amounts of energy to run these new fangled AI data centers. Not sure if you lumped that in with "resources", but yes we're already seeing it:

A typical AI data center uses as much electricity as 100,000 households, and the largest under development will consume 20 times more, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). They also suck up billions of gallons of water for systems to keep all that computer hardware cool.

https://www.npr.org/2025/10/14/nx-s1-5565147/google-ai-data-...