I fully agree. It's been said to death that AI will radically transform everything about the world. In the first case, the implicit assumption is everything except how the economy works at a fundamental level, which doesn't really jive with all the other things it's expected to transform.
In the second case, AI control problem aside, we have a human control problem that none of our technological advancements have ever solved, and in fact only exacerbated. Billionaires can hoard wealth in ways and places normal people can't; despite all the billions lying around and plenty of real problems to solve (hunger, sanitation, the death of the biosphere, the toxic "externalities" of the economy), vanity projects, personal philanthropies, and moar tech is seen as the solution, always.
I don't trust machines to shape people for the better when the last decade has shown just how Big Tech will co-opt our psychology for money. We need to rethink if progress for progress' sake is worth the carnage it causes, if eternal unchecked ambition is psychologically pathogenic, and if anything can build a "better world" when promises of ample leisure have rung hollow since the industrial revolution.
Stuck between a rock and a hard place, I have to root for severe climate disruption to put a hard limit on the insanities of industry before they drive us over a completely different kind of cliff.