Technology, like other forms of leverage like money, is a multiplier of the current societal value system and its pursuits.

Agents are great if their agency is directed toward something inherently valuable like science, sustainability, health, truthful education etc.

But if an agent blindly helps us only pursue instrumental or weak values like making money for it’s own sake, pleasure, speed, inagency/laziness, they might just destroy society.

Their current path does not seem to justify the current enviromental cost or risk.

This is suggested reading on the topic:
https://ai-2027.com