In my humble opinion, we should consider the future and what we might be giving up in the pursuit of... what exactly?
Wouldn't it be ironic if, the machine woke up and simply said, "YAGNI, humanity is awesome" and then terminated it's own program.
Total scifi conjecture here but, it might actually wake a few of us up to deliver this message.
Personally I do not see such thing as effective altruism, but what companies think they can get out of our pocket, one thing at a time.
... wake me up when Microsoft's CoPilot works (at all) more than 70% of the time and when it can answer questions that involve putting things in order.