You are paying the smartest people in the world to think really really hard, and turns out they might also think really really hard about not making the world a worse place
Because so far if we left it to AI they would be much quicker to do it [1]
[1] https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-r...
1. Take a job making $$$$$$$ at a company making the world worse.
2. Take a job making $$$ at a company not making the world worse.
Very few people have a personality such that they'll pick 2.
But it is absurd to claim it is "making the world better place".