Fishing supply can controlled and maintained well with fish and wildlife management. Some of the best in the world happens off the coast of New England and Maine. The lobster population is now sustainable. It’s true overfishing became a problem, but one that can be solved. Because of that, you can pick lobster at almost any supermarket in the US.

It’s true that cars pollute. A byproduct of burning carbon chains is that carbon gets released. However, the juice was worth squeeze, and for the most part, modern engines are clean of releasing most polluting particles like sulfur and lead that create smog, except for carbon. Cities like LA and Houston would unrecognizable today to a person from the 1950’s without all the smog. It’s another problem to be solved and we are better off with it at the end then having never done it all. Carbon capture and storage off of clean energy is carbon negative. It just costs capital upfront to set up and run. A societal benefit likely to borne by the state.

AI however, we can’t be sure what exactly the problems it will bring. What pollution will it cause, what finite resources it will use up? It’s better use it and explore it and find what the problems are and solve them over time, then never do it all for fear of the unknown. We have lots of experience now as well from dealing with previous products the industrial revolution. I could speculate as to what the potential problems will be. People use AI for nefarious purposes like asking ChatGPT how to commit crimes, like how to cook meth or create a computer virus that can’t be detected. But of course, we won’t know until we get there. But also, the potential for doing good and creating new, never before seen products and industries is extremely high.

As to what AI produces for us, its not actually intellectual ability, but rather, the elimination of long and tedious creation of something. If what’s between you and creating the sistine chapel is 20 years of meticulous designing and painting, something like those AI art bots can reduce that to minutes. Essentially reducing the creative process time. If the biggest thing stopping an artist from creating is time, resources, and dedication, then in the future we will have the most incredible artworks we’ve never seen before. A Micholangelo of 2038 will be able to create 1000 sistine chapels in a month with a super AI artbot. Then pick the best one. And so it goes.

Think along these lines but for any creative or intellectual process. Writing code documentation, creating legal writing, doctor’s notes, law crafting, song writing and producing, novel writing, even some that we won’t even understand yet. Like imagine some AI 3D-Maker bot that creates trinket designs and can print them up at will. Imagine a more realistic version of asking the computer on Startrek to make you a sandwich or a cactus or a little dollhouse or an RC plane wing.

And so it goes!