My thoughts/arguments are based on the following three premises:

1. We live in the limited-resources world.
2. In (most) human nature, selfishness more or less impact what we do. Satisfying oneself either physically or spiritually is one of the top priorities.
3. Artificial Intelligence, as created by human, and models trained on existing data, in my understanding are unlikely to create innovative results/resources - As the saying that you cannot create what is beyond your comprehension or observation.

Looking back in history or current state of the human world, the underlying reason that we did anything can boil down to statement 1, that we live in a world where energies/resources are limited.

So we trade, we create, we make money to buy stuff, we fight each other, we start a war, we exploit, we try to be smart or out win others in a competition, we want to win others’ appreciation. In modern society, in current economic world, people usually get what they want by taking from others' production (regardless “fairly” or not, "legally" or not). That is the nature of a human society. We very much rely on others or the whole society to live. Then the statement 2 applies in a limited world, makes sense of we do everything in this society.

AI helps boost people's productivity. But what AI really help to produce is the question to ask. AI also helps for some people to get more resources or in a special case, make more money from others' boosted productivity and from AI itself.

But as said in premise 3, I doubt the AI will help produce more resources, on the contrary, it consumes more energy. We see AI makes some people richer, at the same time, making others poorer because resources are limited. We are just distributing or carving them up while consuming them in a much faster speed.

I am not against AI, in fact I am learning and use AI in my daily life and work. But this is a worthy question to think about. Is AI making world a better place?