This is why people who claim that AI has its uses are always dead wrong. Sure it can help you write sloppy code ten times as fast, or make you "research" (lease out your brain) things slightly faster (minus all the factchecking to see if it hallucinates). It may even help medical research, but all these advantages, which are all "this can be done slightly faster", does not make up for the fact that it significantly contributes to burning up our planet a lot faster than it is already on its way to doing.
We can live without any of its advantages, but we literally cannot live with all its disadvantages.