The IA that we have now, *such as it is* (good with the bad), took a whole lot of money to create. It's not the sort of thing that a few college grads with a kickstarter could have come up with. It is very much the production of the super-rich, and so it is natural that they are going to feel entitled to controlling it.
The notion that the rise in tech will create this utopian labor-free world where everyone is equal, is just naive. There will always be greedy people, and so long as there are always hierarchies of power, the greedy ones will claw their way to the top and ruin things for everyone else. Even if tech someday gives us our star trek utopia, it's not going to happen in a flash when the necessary tech arrives...it's going to emerge from a long slog of exploitation and suffering.
Some of the complaints I am hearing about AI are silly though. "Oh, AI addiction is harming our relationships!" Well, any addiction will harm your relationships. The answer is the same here as anywhere else: conquer your addiction. It's hard, but do-able, and done. This isn't an AI problem, it's a you problem.
"Oh, it's harming my kid's mental development!" ok well then take the phone away for a bit and make the kids play together out in the yard. Sure, they will scream and so-on but boredom will set in and their natural instinct for play will take over. You just have to put forth the effort. I am sorry that parenting is hard, I truly am, but the ask here is for "the world" to take the AI away from the kids, when that can much more easily be done by the parents. (Oh and also teach your kids how to use it responsibly).
"Oh, its harming the environment from energy use." The AI isn't doing that, the people running it on their servers are. Charge them more for the power! Use the extra money on environmental clean-up. Switch to nuclear power. The human demand for power is only going to rise over time, this is just pushing the issue as a side effect of the high level of interest in the technology. So, instead of ruining thing for everyone who gets good value out of AI, fix the energy production and pollution problems directly.
"Oh, it's putting creative people out of work". Actually, I sympathize a lot with that one. That sucks. The rampant disregard for copyright law during the production of AI sucks too. It would be nice if we could have some regulation in place that would cap AI use in creative works, give people clear options to choose human-created works, and so on. That's tricky though, because it is so easy to cheat and get away with it. The tech exists now, so the cat is out of the bag at this point. There's no making the tech go away. This one will be difficult to hash out and good people are going to get shafted in the process. I am sad about this, but don't see a clear and good solution that will actually work, at this point.