It was developed by those people for the reasons I described. I wasn't saying it created itself. The technology doesn't exist at all without humans. It's always connected to them. And I don't have to follow whatever rhetorical rules/social norms you think apply here.
No, the early developers of AI did not do it for those reasons. It was developed to help humans with education and creativity back in the 1970s and 1980s. How people are implementing it now is different from the vision the original pioneers had.
I am talking about AI as a superior replacement for human judgement. If that's not what that was then it isn't relevant to this conversation.