"AI is doing x" and "AI is going to do Z" is just an empty phrase used by selfish psychopathic humans who are actively exploiting and capitalizing off of the rest of society and using AI as just another tool to do so.
These people get their worldview from movies and science fiction books. They want the world to be like Mad Max and shytty transhumanist literature because it's in their narcissist nature to crave chaos. They feel inadequate because they lack empathy and can't be real humans like the rest of us so they want to create a world where human nature stops existing so that they are no longer outsiders.
They have a childish view of society and history and they want others to think in these terms also.