You’re making a very serious point, yet I can’t get past the fact that the oil barrel is labeled “Oil Barrel.”

You can add up all the enjoyable pursuits of LLMs and the work productivity hacks and none of them, separately or together, will be more important than AI’s ecological costs or political disruption.

“We” is more important here.

They could simply be implying that they expect these to be replaced soon enough by something even more powerful and monstrous.