No-one has mentioned one obvious objection which is that the likely rate of progress of AI technologies seems likely to make any potential demographic collapse irrelevant.
It seems like a safer bet that AI will have some kind of effect on lightening the labor load than it will solve either of those particular problems.
I’ve spent hours going over your arguments and this is a real crux for me. AI is likely to lessen the need for human workers, at least for maintaining our existing levels of wealth.
No-one has mentioned one obvious objection which is that the likely rate of progress of AI technologies seems likely to make any potential demographic collapse irrelevant.
While AI could be a deus ex machina here, we don’t think that handwaiving the problem away with an “AI can fix it” will do.
I mean, we could say that about pretty much anything—from climate change to (and seriously) existential AGI risks.
It seems like a safer bet that AI will have some kind of effect on lightening the labor load than it will solve either of those particular problems.
I’ve spent hours going over your arguments and this is a real crux for me. AI is likely to lessen the need for human workers, at least for maintaining our existing levels of wealth.