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Today we just passed 2C of warming. So possibly we very much do need AGI.

I don’t follow the logic.

How does climate change increase the need for AGI?

AGI is unforseen it might even think humans are the force behind the warming, which they are.

Other animals don't pollute like humans.

We certainly don’t seem capable of solving climate change on our own. If we built an aligned AGI, we could just have it invent cold fusion for us.

Who is “we”?

It seems just as likely that an AGI would be put to work persuading us that climate change was nothing to worry about.

The people.

“The people” are not building an AGI, mostly don’t have the skills for it.

In the eyes of AGI humans will be a liability.