Technical solutions for societal issues don't have the best track record. Providing healthcare and education to everyone needs the right incentives, not technology that could theoretically help if greed spontaneously ceased to exist.
That "foundation of technology" requires a more basic foundation that makes the technology accessible. If an unemployed person in the US can only afford a witch doctor that's not a technical problem.
> If you think that AI only benefits shareholders then you're the one with exceptional short term vision.
You can't be so blind to history that you truly believe this, our present day is filled with examples of this not being true. You can directly look at literally any medical achievement that corporations own.
Broadening access to AI will massively benefit all humans