Futurists worry about rogue AI for pretty good reasons; we've already experienced a primitive form of the problem in our social bureaucracy. Those politicians and powerholders do horrible things as they optimize toward a misaligned reward function, whether that's votes in a unrepresentative majoritarian polling system, leverage in an absurdly lopsided legislative system, or financial tokens in an economic system that rewards hoarders.

What's happening now in the US is not dissimilar from a game AI spamming some useless behavior that runs up a counter to no useful purpose. Unfortunately, the dollar-counter gives our social AI ever-greater power to perpetuate itself. Millions, billions, trillions of dollar-points, all redeemable for more and more human labor to be spent on accumulating more and more points, absolutely disregarding the humanitarian or ecological cost.