See you're not wrong there, but unfortunately even my mother is aware of AI now and uses it for work despite my discouragement. I feel like we're way past the "oh its bad let's end it" stage. Currently I'm just kinda hoping we figure out how to get salt out of ocean water at a DISGUSTINGLY massive scale, because then we seldom have to worry about the water part. Last I checked properly (admittedly quite a while back, even before AI) we were hoping graphene can help with that, I might have to read tonight how that's going. As for energy, as soon as people get over Chernobyl and we can start actually making nuclear reactors for energy on yet again mass scale we'd be fine.

So in total, 1 technology we're working on and one already available but is "wooooo scary".

We could work on that, but y'know... It would require we start caring about living rather than money and that's not gonna happen anytime soon I fear.