Short term: painful disruption. Medium term: the Industrial Revolution for intelligence. Long term: the solar system, then the stars. Our world is broken and

Short term: painful disruption. Medium term: the Industrial Revolution for intelligence. Long term: the solar system, then the stars. Our world is broken and unfinished. We are using up all the physical resources of our world and are stressing every natural system that we know of. Billions of people live in relative poverty and the world is packed with inefficiency and corruption. Our leadership is incompetent and our politics are toxic. We need help. Badly and soon. If AI can enable the typical person to be 10 or 100 times more productive or make 10 or 100 times better management decisions, we might finally have a chance of escaping the Malthusian trap that’s about to close on us. Our solar system is filled with vast resources and vast stores of energy. We have the scientific knowledge to colonize the many planets and moons within reach but are vastly short on the energy, labor and materials required. AI could be the key enabler to get the space based economy off the ground, and release us from the resource constraints of this single planet. Once we have remade, all these worlds into gardens our descendants can head off to Alpha Centauri.