These companies are going too far too fast like we always do as humans, and I agree the negatives aren't going to be pleasant. But there are industries and prod

These companies are going too far too fast like we always do as humans, and I agree the negatives aren't going to be pleasant. But there are industries and products out there that we all use currently that have way worse externalities that we just shove to the side in our minds because they've been around since before we could yell on twitter about them. The beef industry is a nutty thing to exist in its current form. Oil and plastics what the hell are we even doing? My guess is if you put your head down and did the research AI doesn't even rank in the top 10 of problematic things that people use daily. Air travel, everyone having a nice green super watered lawn / golf courses, air conditioning in every home, fast fashion. A single person using AI for their work doesn't even register on the list of offences if you compare it to these things. Driving an ICE car every day for more than 30 minutes is wild. Hell it probably doesn't even use as much power as playing a video game on a good graphics card for 2 hours. The thing I've resigned myself to is very few people will change anything at all for the greater good of society that gives them even a minor inconvenience. See: COVID restrictions. My honest take is we're absolutely doomed as a species unless we come up with novel solutions to the problems we're facing. And guess what AI is showing itself to be extremely good at in various fields [1][2][3]? It's a pipe-dream hope, but the hope is there. And AI when compared to the decades (sometimes centuries) of oil, beef, coal, whatever else won't even be a pixel on the screen of reasons why climate change is happening for some time yet. And it will highly incentivize mass production/adoption of the cheapest power sources which also happens to be renewables. I understand it doesn't look like that right now as people like Elon make their disgusting data centers, but over time I'd bet on it only because the financial incentive is there. The discussion is far more nuanced than "AI bad". I understand the horrific aspects of it, but there is plenty of good to be found there too. Accessibility, translation, help with learning disabilities. The list of good outcomes goes on for a long while. It's a powerful tool that can be used for good or ill. In my opinion we need more people with the principles you speak of to be using powerful tools for the benefit of those principles. [1] https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-design-compounds-kill-drug-resistant-bacteria-0814 https://news.mit.edu/2025/using-generative-ai-researchers-de... [2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03819-2 [3] https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2025/12/rfdiffusion2-efficient-enzymes-from-prompts/ https://www.ipd.uw.edu/2025/12/rfdiffusion2-efficient-enzyme...