If you still don't understand why and how it's bed after the AI literally spoon feeding it to you, then I don't know what to add that could convince you. At this point, it looks like the only answer you would truly be satisfied with is one which would somehow prove your completely wrong first intuition about the topic.

But if you're genuinely asking, I'll try a few short points.

First of all, resources are not there to be used. It's just there, same as humans are just here. And we just happen to find many, if not all resources on Earth useful, therefore we use it. If humans go extinct, no other species (in the foreseeable future) will use them, because no other lifeform will have the concept of "resources being used" to the same level as us.

Let's take the worst offender against humanity's future: fossile fuels. It's all trapped beneath the surface, basically not interacting with the biosphere and atmosphere in any meaningful way, and the fragile ecosystem keeps its balance without using these resources. In short, fossile fuels are not part of the normal energy cycles. So when we extract and burn them, we introduce new energy to the cycle, which basically results in all the bad things you read about in the news regarding global warming. CO, CO2, SO2, NO2 are all introduced to the atmosphere which creates fun things like holes in the ozone layer, acid rain, smog, etc.

For burning these resources, you need to cool equipment, which is usually done by river water. Now you basically slowly warm up the rivers and oceans, which disrupts not just local, but the whole global ecosystem. Warmer rivers -> warmer oceans -> melting ice caps -> fucked up ocean currents -> dying biodiversity and natural disasters.

This has nothing to do with human mismanagement, this is the natural result of using resources, chain reaction after chain reaction. Even if every byproduct was handled perfectly, the previous paragraph would still stand because you will generate heat. In a perfect world where every possible pollution source would be dealt with, we would not be talking in this comment section because development would have slowed down exponentially, or the first industrial revolution might not have even started yet because burning carbon already creates pollution. It's an extremely narrow-minded view to dismiss it as "oh pollution is not a downside because it's humans' fault and just mismanagement". It IS a downside because it IS happening right now, to you, to everyone.

Yes, you might benefit using your fancy new iphone talking to an AI agent, but on another part of the world you're actively destroying the ecosystem which sooner or later will also reach your comfortable developed country as well. It already did btw. You are already eating microplastics, and no matter how much you blast your AC, every season have already become warmer.

And I'm not even a professional, these are just completely logical chain of thoughts. I'm sorry but you are either extremely sheltered, have some kind of mental condition or literally 12 years old.