Saw this article the other day about how
OpenAI is screwed. Oh, and don’t expect AI magic to circumvent
hard material limits of dwindling non-renewable natural resources.
At this point, the only real question is whether the tech-bro elites know this and are pitching everything into AI in a Hail Mary attempt to build a super intelligence to come up with some brilliant tech breakthrough to solve our energy and material needs, or if they’re just trying to hoard the deck chairs of the Titanic before it sinks, so they can live their satanic elite Epstein Island fantasy while 99% of humanity is kicked back to the Stone Age ala Peter Thiel/Curtis Yarvin. There’s also the possibility that they’re actually short sighted idiots with delusions of grandeur who are too dumb to realize they’ve dug themselves into a hole. Lots of possibilities are on the table.
Personally, I think the Eschaton happens before we run out of oil and/or a super intelligent AI takes over the world for five minutes, but this is mostly my writer’s instinct gut feeling talking.