The current economic model is by no means a rule of nature that humans need to follow unless they disappear. That model gives power into the hands of the minori

The current economic model is by no means a rule of nature that humans need to follow unless they disappear. That model gives power into the hands of the minority that possesses the most capital (as machines or money to buy machines), up until now that capital has needed workers to create useful stuff, I agree with you that automation is causing that less and less workers are needed to create value, causing a widening of the inequality gap. The solution to that problem is not to stop working on AI, it is to rethink how capital and power is shared among the society. Indeed advanced AI and automation may well be our way out of the exploitation of man by man.