There’s a joke that in a couple of years, after spending trillions of dollars, burning mountains of coal to run country-sized datacenters and boiling all the oceans, we finally achieve AGI.
Then the first question we ask it is: 'How do we fix climate change?'
And it answers: 'you can start by unplugging me'
If we're counting, the USA was already pretty deep in the hole. Anybody that has experienced crippling debt understands there's a point of no return where you just embrace it.
The only problem is, if AI doesn’t solve cold fusion, we’re back to square one. And a few trillion dollars in the hole.