I think it's pretty clear that no group of humans is running the show, where it matters. Humanity is too large, with too much complexity, too many interconnections and Nth-order side effects, for any group of people to be running it.
We are, for better or worse, cruising on a giant ship with limited steering, and all we can do is try to control how much fuel we shovel into the engine.
But the direction of the boat is controlled more like an Ouiji board; our direction is an emergent behavior.
But I think that it’s pretty clear that they’re not running the show, where it really matters.