The elephant in the room is that the world's population has increased from 1 billion to 7 billion in 200 years and will increase to 15 billion in another 100 years.
Levels of material consumption (and thus pollution waste) have increased by many multiples of that.
The UK population has increased 50% since WW2.
Some (most) African countries populations have increased (exponentially) 3 times in 40 years.
Marx had an answer to income distribution.
You can be assured the investors in AI (which, like electric cars, is by no means new) will only do it for the money.
I have always said that over population will destroy the planet long before CO2 / climate change / global warming or whatever it is called these days. The problem for me is that although global leaders are happy enough to bang on about CO2 etc, (mainly because carbon is taxable) they go a bit quiet about controlling population which is undoubtedly the cause of land degradation, loss of habitat for wild animals, poverty, famine and drought (caused by deforestation and overgrazing of habitat by domesticated animals - cows, goats etc.)
China has been roundly criticised for imposing a single child policy in the 60's, but their decision was very far sighted in the light of present day world population, but common-sense things that are easy for a dictatorship to do are hard to do in democracies with their pressure groups and lobbyists.
I will take climate change debate seriously when it includes measures to reduce world population growth, until they we are just tinkering around the edges, and certain people are making lots of money from climate change scare tactics.
Bio-fuel are responsible for the loss off many thousands of square miles of rainforest, and growing corn and sugar cane to make vehicle fuel suggests to me that the inmates have finally taken over the asylum.
EV's wont save the planet but birth control just might.
I find it very ironic that as population explodes, computers and AI are destroying jobs, a real double whammy.