See also "paperclip maximizer." Then imagine what happens when you have an entire global economy driven by these types of inhuman, amoral agents.
Or rather, they're giving the rest of us a glimpse of what life has been like for those at the "bottom of the pile" for a long time: a world organised around goals essentially completely unrelated and indifferent to those people's existence.
ai generates content <--money--> ai pushes ads to promote its content.
It's somewhat already happening: recommendation algorithms choose what content we consume, analytics make decisions from this data and make more content that recommendation algorithms like. AI HFT bots can directly influence economy and so on