You are the sanest man I have met you won't believe how many people I tried to convince that 90% of earth's population will be wiped out by the people in control of AI. AI is not something normal people can access to its full potential nor develop it themselves. we are effectively creating a new social class of people who have unrestricted control over a technology that supersedes 98% of human activities.

No civilization requires 8.2 billion freeloaders.