>>106974136 (OP)
If you work with information/knowledge? Yes.
I can have an army of agents read, classify, filter, and summarize hundreds of papers every day and present them to me.
Without AI, I would have no chance of having such an up-to-date and comprehensive overview. It gives you a huge information advantage over anyone who doesn't use it, by several magnitudes.
Is it worth it? Indispensable for the academic sector. For normal people, AI is not made accessible in this way. For them, there are hotel reservations, cat videos, and an intelligent buddy.
To each his own.