The Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence

There's a wonderful symmetry to the idea that we could invent our way out of our inventiveness problem or at least our inventiveness byproducts problem. The last couple of hundred years have put human collective intellectual capacity and the ability of entire human societies to adjust under huge amounts of pressure. I don't know what the right answer is in a case like this because sometimes I wish we had something smarter than we are, but the obvious downside of that is well obvious. If you are a betting person, it would be smart to assume that we humans will do just what we have always done.