[hendler]

I care a lot about the environment, and worked in climate tech for 7 years. I also am very hopeful for AI's contributions.

When we say that AI will help save the environment, I can see short term gains in things like nuclear energy expansion and improvement, better educational opportunities, robotic labor and other efficiency automations, etc. On ecosystems and biodiversity, I don't see a clear path.

AI can improve our understanding, but a systems collapse requires very complex bio-chemical systems that are all interdependent. Maybe we all live in bubbles of AI controlled environments post Holocene, but we rely on larger earth systems that will be difficult to rebuild post collapse.

Does anyone else worry that AI will not be rapid or sufficiently impactful to deal with ecosystem collapse?

[knowitnone]

Do you think AI will propose new ideas or regurgitate our ideas that we don't implement? And even if AI proposes new ideas, will we implement them if we don't even implement our own ideas?

[hendler]

Your answer is part of why I am concerned. Maybe new incentives or leverage can be created. Giving AI the power to create new social dynamics seems both too dangerous and necessary.