I think LLMs can both be bad for humanity (which I believe) AND useful at certain tasks. The general populace has been convinced that they’re the ultimate authority which is very sad (e.g. “@grok is this true?”)
... I mean, it's not evolution. These things have people guiding them. Note the whole 'agreeability' controversy. That one's is a bit like cigarette companies back in the day optimising their products for addictiveness; do you do the right thing, or the thing that makes people buy your product more?