To do serious harm or have broad social control requires concentrating that power with an infrastructure that a small group does not have, it requires coordinating the resources of a broad social base. And at that point the incentives to use them are affected by the needs of many people.
>requires concentrating that power with an infrastructure that a small group does not have, it requires coordinating the resources of a broad social base.
These are all things intelligence (artificial or otherwise) can help acquire. It listens, thinks, and responds. Genghis Khan, Adolf Hitler, and Albert Einstein are all intelligences that resulted in dramatic tangible, physical changes to our world almost entirely by listening, processing, and responding with human language.
A small number of slow and weak apes came to have absolute unilateral control over the destiny of all other lifeforms because of intelligence. The power, infrastructure, and resources you speak of were not available in 15,000 BCE, yet somehow they exist today.
In that case, this current batch is not "advanced AI". It is a big autocomplete panel which retrieves content already present in its training corpus, and presents it in new shapes; it is not ready to define new goals with a purpose and follow them to completion.