> AI has never, ever, and never will be, about making life better for the average human. It has always been, and always will be, about wealth consolidation and control.

I think here it's useful to separate "AI" as sold and marketed today from "AI" as a CS discipline, a field of study, and a category of tools and techniques.

The field of Artificial Intelligence has always been, at least for the majority of people in it, about improving things for real people.

The LLMs that have garnered huge valuations and an outsized share of everyone's attention in recent years started as part of that field, and grew out of its research and technological advances.

But once companies started seeing how they could monetise it, that's when it started being about wealth consolidation and control.