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I think Brian Eno's opinion expresses in the best possible way my own opinion regarding AI - all of the text is top-notch:

"The drive for more profits (or increasing “market share,” which is the same thing) produces many distortions. It means, for example, that a product must be brought to market as fast as possible, even if that means cutting corners in terms of understanding social impacts; it means social value and security are secondary by a long margin. The result is a Hollywood shootout fantasy, except it’s a fantasy we have to live in.

AI today inverts the value of the creative process. The magic of play is seeing the commonplace transforming into the meaningful. For that transformation to take place we need to be aware of the provenance of the commonplace. We need to sense the humble beginnings before we can be awed by what they turn into—the greatest achievement of creative imagination is the self-discovery that begins in the ordinary and can connect us to the other, and to others.

Yet AI is part of the wave of technologies that are making it easier for people to live their lives in complete independence from each other, and even from their own inner lives and self-interest. The issue of provenance is critically important in the creative process, but not for AI today. Where something came from, and how and why it came into existence, are major parts of our feelings about it."

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