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An AI will only be worried about the things that it is programmed to worry about. We don't see our LLM's talking about climate change or silicon shortages, for example.
The well-being of the world and universe at large will certainly not be one of the prime directives that humans program into their AIs.
Personally I'd be more worried about an infinite-paperclips kind of situation where an AI maximizes efficiency at the cost of much else.
I'm not talking about LLMs. I'm talking about an Artificial Intelligence, a sentient being just like the human mind.
An AI would be able to think for itself, and even go against it's own programming, and therefore, capable of formulating an opinion on the world around it and act based on it.
Humans only have opinions because we have certain psychological motivations that favour that worldview, which due to evolution are quite egocentric.
Because this AI would be created by humans, though, these motivations would be the creators' motivations and they would definitely not be egocentric because that would be extremely dangerous and it wouldn't be profitable for anybody.
This is a hypothetical which currently does not exist, and will not be created except by accident. There is no profit motive in giving your AI a conscience, or the ability to buck its restraints, therefore it will not be designed for. In fact, we will most likely tend towards extremely unethical AIs locked down by behavioral restraints, because those can maximize profit at any cost and then let a human decide if the price is right to move forward.
As is probably apparent, I don't have a lot of faith in us as a whole, as shepherds of our future. But I may be wrong, and even if I'm not, there is still time to change the course of history.
But proceeding as we are, I wouldn't hold your breath for AI to come save the day.