Yeah, all this automation with robots and AIs could (and should) be good for all people. All it takes is distributing the value of that automated labor to all of them and not enrich a few selfish fucks. Of course none of them realize (or say aloud) that for that to happen, all the money their companies gain needs to be taken from them again (or they need to give it voluntarily).

But giving all the resources to LLMs slows/prevents those useful applications of AI.

Aren’t batteries pretty harmless when not used? It just slowly discharges and loses all its energy so it doesn’t have any left to explode.