AI is massively asymmetric in its benefits, which are overwhelmingly concentrated among those with extreme capital, and the authoritarians they're aligned with.

The benefits for them include:

- replacing workers with lower quality (but good enough) AI solutions, which degrade the quality of nearly every product or service for the consumer, but not by enough to offset the labor cost savings

- mass surveillance at low cost, a way to take the absurd amounts of data humanity now produces, and use to subjugate them

- propaganda/deception/misinformation, a new vector for propaganda which people are naively inclined to trust. bonus points for the "flooding the zone" strategy which AI makes easier

Benefits to the worker:

- lower cost of goods and services (but not for you, silly - they'll still be taxing you via inflation to fund their wars of conquest)

- you won't have to work anymore

- you won't have to eat anymore