What I find interesting is that a lot of these changes which are attributed to the purportedly “inevitable” changes associated with AI (or partly with its not-adoption), are real consequences of climate change.

• loss of employment? Check.
• profound change to living conditions? Check.
• loss of labour productivity - including knowledge work? Check.
• threathening the stability of the world-wide financial system? Check.
• increasing likelihood of war? Check.
• threathening even the continuity of human civilization? Check.
• threathening the capability to compete on national scales if the change is not reponded to swiftly by governments? Check.
• Correlated with obscene amounts of wealth concentration, impoverishing the huge majority of people, and disintegrating societies? Check.

It’s as if AI is used as a distraction. Like the “accusation in a mirror” pattern.