Most people don’t reach self-actualization and never have. This has nothing to do with AI.

With regards to technology specifically, new tech has been making high-investment skills useless for the last 500+ years. The printing press, the loom, etc. This is not anything new.

Some of these AI doomers really need to read more than AI Substacks and Twitter feeds. I suggest a book about the history of technology.

It is perfectly reasonable to suggest that we make an effort to direct a technology in certain directions. It is not reasonable to throw all rational thought out the window and operate as if real world AI is synonymous with science fiction.