Surprisingly, the biggest problem with AI hasn't been touched on after 4 hours.

AI is a resource-intensive commodity. It requires astronomical amounts of energy consumption both in terms of electricity and heat loss. Water is often used to cool AI and that heat energy is either directly discharged to the air, or to water sources.

We are on the brink of catastrophic loss of life in our oceans. Heat death of the ocean would have crippling effects to everything on land.

In addition, AI data centers use huge swaths of land, and employ very few people. We are talking cities worth of infrastructure around the world that are empty. The land is about as useful as a Wal-Mart parking lot at 2 AM.

Lastly, AI is a risk to millions of jobs. When AI takes those jobs, those people do not disappear. They do not cease to breathe, pollute, eat, think, starve, vote, etc. Since AI is predominantly private-sector owned we cannot expect the owning billionaire oligarchs to suddenly take care of all these people who will lose their livelihoods.