See, I actually don't hate the idea of engineering and automating away parts of work. Work, almost by definition, sucks. If it didn't suck we wouldn't think of it as "work."
But the current model of AI is less trying to free humanity from work than it is freeing work from humanity. Take the important business of making the line go up away from the grubby hands of people who need things like "food" and "healthcare" as a necessary precondition for working, to say nothing of their desires for "dignity" or "respect". Even creative and artistic work that gets underpaid in exchange for being something people can be innately passionate about can be taken away from those people and fed a diet of raw electricity and compute.