I get that the promise of AI is that it will be used to discover solutions to humanity's biggest problems more quickly than we could with traditional computing and research methods, but when climate change and depletion of natural resources are our most existential threats, MAYBE we should pump the brakes on deploying these technologies until we can figure out how to do it without them chewing through natural resources at a heretofore unprecedented rate AND contributing to exacerbating climate change?
I guess maybe we're in the radiation/chemo stage of human existence? It will definitely make things worse in the short run, but we'll definitely die without it and it MIGHT save us? Fuck. This is no way to start a Friday morning..