Its good to look at the broader perspective! I like to think of Bitcoin's technology being a much better substrate or "soil" that allows everyone space to grow.

AI might be a hype. It has provided me value in the time it saves and the doors it opens. Regardless if it's useful in the end, hype can still serve as a meaningful motivation to building open-source tools that can be applied to a greater set of applications!

The current paradigm for software as a service is the whole "if you're not paying for it, you are the product". There has to be a meaningful and frictionless exchange and currency provides a common ground of value for that. L402's seem like a promising bridge.

If this singularity occurs at least Bitcoin will provide people the hope to maintain sovereignty (if they wish!) which opens up the playing field to fair competition instead of being at the behest of tech giants.