You're not going to push ahead when it's someone else's mission. It needs to be yours. - Peter Diamandis

Your inputs determine your outputs. If you spend your days consuming fear-based content about AI, you will be afraid. If you spend your days building things with AI, you will be excited. This applies to almost anything.

Clay Shirky uses the term "cognitive surplus" to describe this process. He defines it as "the ability of the world's population to volunteer and to contribute and collaborate on large, sometimes global, projects." "Wikipedia took one hundred million hours of volunteer time to create," says Shirky.

The thirst of modern agricultural practices, industrial practices, and the bottled water industry have pushed those systems toward collapse. We cannot risk further degradation. Simply put: no ecosystems means no ecosystem services, and that's a loss our species cannot survive.