Environment & Energy
In reply to the discussion: The Guardian: America's premier pronatalists on having 'tons of kids' to save the world: 'There are going to be count... [View all]OKIsItJustMe
(21,016 posts)He suggested that humanitys role in the ongoing saga of Gaia might have been to produce a new type of life, which could not have emerged spontaneously from the primordial soup. However, he also said that electronic life (artificial intelligence) requires a temperature range similar to what we do. (You may have noticed, even a smallish computer, like a laptop tends to have a cooling fan. Large servers, which support large language models, use tremendous amounts of energy, and produce lots of heat.)
https://www.wired.com/story/fast-forward-chatgpt-hunger-energy-gpu-revolution/
He anticipated that AIs would quickly surpass us, but he did not expect a violent takeover (a la The Terminator or The Matrix.) His belief was that Artificial Intelligence would become intelligent fast enough to understand its dependence on organic life to keep the planet cool enough for it to survive.
However, once again, if we have damaged the ecosystem badly enough, nothing may survive, including cybernetic life.