Raw LLM Responses

Umm... humanity is doing that pretty damn well on it's own, Senator, by way of not having enough children -- especially in the well-developed world. The birthrate in America is down below 1.5 children per woman, or 150 children per 1000 women. Or 15.000 children per 1 million women. That sort of societal development is close to being absolutely TERMINAL for any nation in the world. I live in Europe, born of in Denmark and a resident of Sweden. I work as a historien and geopolitical analyst and specialise in the supply-chain system, security, energy, demographic and societal development. We are in big trouble in this world. And world that we in the midst of creating is one that will take us way beyond what people just a couple of decades envisioned as being possible, let alone being realistic. 111 years ago, when World War I broke out, it was still very much a world in the mould of how the world had looked for centuries, yet over the course of 35 years the world had divided itself into two massively opposing worlds: The Communist world led by the USSR, and the Western World under the American Leadership and the Bretton-Woods System. And for 45 years, everything humanity did was centered on this fighting this Cold War. And by the time that war ended nobody knew how what to do with the peace that had been brokered. There was never any plan for what we were going to do post the Cold War because everyone always assumed the Cold War was going to be the last big thing in human history. Even the movie Terminator from 1984, it was the Russians that started the Nuclear War that brought an end to human civilization, thus paving the way for the Rise of Machines. The Rise of the Terminators. The film, The Matrix, also takes ta different a stance on this dystopian end to human civilization where everyone exists in the world of Virtual Reality, while being used as a "battery" by the machines in order to provide them with energy. So much has been said about the evolution of technology. I am a kid from the 80's, and back when everyone was running around watching Marty McFly travel back and forth between his present day and the past and future, the one thing every kid on my street wanted was the HOVERBOARD... the skateboard that floated in the air! That's what every kid in age bracket wanted in those days! My dad always said to me, everything is fiction until someone develops it! And my dad, as young man, read H.G Wells, Jules Verne, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and all these great authors. And the one thing I myself took away from reading all these stories was that somethings are best left unexploited. Yes, they might present a wealth of opportunities, but the medal... that shiny golden medal always comes with a backside that you cannot see until such a point that you hold it in your hands... and by then it might be too late. In the eyes of Oppenheimer, his creation (the nuclear bomb, for anyone who doesn't know) was exactly such a medal. Nuclear Energy presented a wealth of opportunity: masses of clean and cost efficient energy. But the fact it could be used to destroy the entire world in a matter of hours and days (back then, at least) made turned it into a bitter-sweet invention, one that we certainly improved upon in the years since 1945. If humanity had spent the same amount of economic resource on building out our Nuclear Power Grid as we did Nuclear Weapons, I dare say Climate Changes would've become the glaring crisis that it is. So it is all matter of choice. And when it comes to war, the amount of money humanity pour into the machinery of war simply has no equal. I mentioned childbirths before. One of the reasons why we have war here in Europe is because of failing demographics. No other country in Europe has it as bad as Russia does in terms of failing demographics, hitting the absolutely bottom in 1999 with just 116 children per 1000 women. There are 142 million in people in Russia, down from, between 1993 and 2008, 148 million to the 142 million of today. But even worse, is Russia's pool of young people. It is just 30 million people large.. That is absolutely TERMINAL. Germany and Italy are in the same booth. My birth country of Denmark has surely peeked in terms of population, at 6 million people. And prediction is that it will drop by 2 million over the course of the next 75 years unless something significantly is done to change the circumstance. The world is in PANICK MODE. A war with Russia -- well, practically any sort of global conflict -- would be completely devastating, even if it didn't end with a Nuclear Exchange. The huge losses in terms of life -- military and civilian -- would have so far reaching consequences for all concerned that it would likely break the back of this civilization. Leaving out any form of Nuclear Exchange, such a war would come with such devastations that it's unlikely humanity would recover without some form of "edge" that would allow for humanity to carry on, being far fewer in numbers than what we have in 200 years. And that is where AI comes in -- at least, in the eyes of some. Me, I am far more pessimistic about our changes. In a global conflict, let alone a world ravaged by climate changes, the enormous disruptions to the global supply-chain system would be terrible.