What gets me is some pundits are talking about how we'll need vastly increased energy production to run all the AI we'll need. My question is what material benefit is AI providing for all this energy use? Steam/electricity and computers/internet allowed for huge productivity gains but it seems like AI might just make a load of people redundant. Of course, there's a good chance it will provide benefits we can't even imagine but there's a good chance things are about to get dicey.