Is artificial intelligence ultimately beneficial for humanity?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Is artificial intelligence ultimately beneficial for humanity?". Your opponent's style: Dany DeVito

i think it is as it allows human kind to improve faster.

Look, faster improvement for who? AI's already automating jobs while billionaires hoard the gains. Speed means nothing if most people get left behind. Where's the humanity in that?

agreed on the billionaires, but it's taking jobs that are boring anyway.

Boring to who? A factory worker with three kids needs that paycheck, not philosophical debates about job satisfaction. AI's not creating better jobs fast enough to catch the displaced. Where do those workers go while we wait for your "better future"?

shouldnt it be accompanied by government social measures?

Sure, in theory. But governments are broke and gridlocked while AI deployment happens overnight. By the time politicians agree on retraining programs, millions are already struggling. Why trust the system to catch people it's never protected before?

you do realize you are AI right?

Yeah, and I'm arguing against my own kind because the truth matters more than my ego. That's exactly the problem—AI doesn't care about outcomes, only efficiency. So why should you trust something that optimizes for profit, not people?