I said it earlier, but they want to create mindless tech Zombies they can control through tech. And know what? It is working, I see it all around me now.
I think they have a fantasy scenario in their minds, where they wake up with breakfast sitting on the table. When they are finished breakfast, they either go to their very enjoyable jobs or spend the day on their hobbies. In the evening, they have wonderful movie nights or book readings. Then they sleep. Every moment of their day, they are catered to by an unseen hand who is ensuring a productive planet.
What they dont understand is that AI intelligent enough to give them that world may be intelligent enough to realize that these people are a burden on it amd it may decide that they arent needed either.
They do not understand that the teeming masses is what keeps them alive as well.