Why should humans care about any of this when the machine can just refill our cat food dish and wave some feathers on a string to keep us entertained?

Either what you say is true, in which case I see no reason to care about truth, science, or math (the machines will figure it out for me), or it isn't, and people are falling for dealing with slop on behalf of people too lazy to look at the turds they purchased.

Either way, I don't see any reason to participate in AI projects without getting paid.