I think the problem is a stochastic one: More options seem to exist for this technolgy to abuse humanity via it's "owners" than do it to democratize anything. It's not like it's helping to wage war, molify the public and entraining pre-existing racist for the last decade.

These are all things happening today via AI, so really, this is an argument thats like, entropy. There's always way more ways in which things fall apart than they build to stability.

Being optimistic seems more like religiousity than any real accounting of the current system you're operating in (unless you're a billionaire).