You could say the same thing about mining asteroids or any number of moonshot projects which will lead to enormous payouts at some future date. That doesn’t tell us anything about how to allocate money today.

We already have human-level intelligence in HUMANS right now, the hack is that the wealthy want to get rid of the human part! It's not crazy, it's sad to think that humans are trying to "capitalize" human intelligence, rather than help real humans.