When you consider the quality of life most human beings enjoy, one might question why the masters of the Universe might not want to come up of something a bit more useful than AI, perhaps, artificial concern, or, artificial compassion. The processing of information being the issue it is, having a machine churn data more quickly [or efficiently] does not appear to be the answer [as it is not getting at the problem], which is that the human intellect simply can not access Reality [or reality].
Being that contentment [being OK with whatever appears in one's life] is the best any of us can hope for in this life, attempting to stretch the intellect further and further simply yields greater levels of dys-function. Although we can certainly strive to improve upon the tools we use to assist us on our journey, figuring things out more accurately is simply not possible. Accepting things as they are needs to be the goal, something our predecessors realized thousands of years ago.
Unfortunately for our fellow travelers, contentment is not high of the list of attributes that make ourselves subject to the desires that drive the consumption frenzy that defines contemporary social relations. So long as the mainstay of human activity continues to be the acquisition of something for nothing, people will use whatever advantages they can discover to enhance/accelerate this process. AI is simply another link in the chain that binds us to the weakest i.e., those that [by definition] will do whatever it takes to accumulate [every damn thing].