Critical thinking is incredibly difficult for people who simultaneously want to do what they want when they want how they want all the time but also don't ever want to be wrong about or responsible for anything so it's better to just have someone else's ideas so they can pretend to be cool and hip and trendy or whatever the kids are saying these days and this way if it turns out to be wrong it's not their fault.

And AI is just the latest in the stream of shiny new tech toys that people want to be able to use in everything to solve all of their problems (i remember back when hive was new there were people who were adamant that blockchain should be used for absolutely everything including replacing the entire internet and that is absolutely not practical). It'll settle into something useful eventually, in the meantime we just have to put up with people desperately trying to shoehorn it into places where it will probably never fit/work out for a bit more :)