There's a fundamental gap between civilized (domesticated) humanity and the reality of sustainable systems. In order for humanity to persist longer than its stolen resources, we need to be involved and engaged as useful contributors to the future of our places. The techno-wave problem is the same as any labor'saving' system: "The only thing worse than doing a human's work for them is to make them do it themselves." Every stage of technology is making work easier, but there is no discernment about whether the work is contributing to the future of humanity's places or children: only whether the next thing is easier to do than the last thing. "If you want people(or an AI) to do the right things, then you have to make the right thing easier to do than the wrong thing."

Everything that consumes the future's usefulness is the wrong thing. Right now, every dollar is a petrodollar because all of our basic needs are dependent on petroleum. If you think any problem can be solved with a bigger economy or faster resource consumption(efficiency) you're probably not seeing the actual problem.

AI can be good or bad, but we aren't even checking on the usefulness of what we do without AIs; we leave that question up to Money. Are AIs going to work for our children's places and needs, or just continue the blind fanatical consumptionism that keeps factories enriching banks?

Are AIs going to work for banks or riverbanks?