Even if a few would manage to escape a dying world, billions would perish. "Humanity" will have been lost anyways.

Currently yes, but let’s imagine we have a few hundred years to plan our escape.

The people in charge will spend the time and resources ensuring their comfort and security, they won’t ensure that normal people are saved.

The elites will send their art collection to space before the poor

Heh, there's a story to be written there about a spaceship carrying art crewed by LLMs. "Full self-flying", said the salesman CEO.

It'd also be interesting if what gets sent to space is an SQL database which most important table has the columns account_owner, account_balance..

Let's call it the B ark.

Why waste time writing dystopian fiction when you can just let reality happen?