AI is a tool and a tool is no more evil than the person who wields it.
Every major invention is followed by upheaval until society adapts to its new circumstances. How many scribes lost their jobs when the printing press was invented? How many laborers were laid off when the industrial revolution came along? How many people in the horse industry fell into irrelevancy after the invention of cars and locomotives? Yet all these inventions benefited humanity in the long run.
Self-driving cars and AI are just the newest batch of inventions that society complains about because they are hyper-focused on the short-term consequences, and not the greater benefits they could bring. I know nobody likes being told their education, skills and career are becoming irrelevant... You want to stay competitive you have to provide something AI can't, or do it better than it does.
Most industries already have little regard for their employees and costumers... Cutting corners to maximize their profits has been their modus operandi for a while now, even before AI. They have grown corrupt, immoral and unsustainable, all in the name short-term profit and goals. We're partially to blame too, because despite our complaints we still buy for them or use their services.