Everyone’s worried about AI taking their software jobs, yet humanity faces existential problems around climate change, poverty, failed states, etc. And huge opportunities like space exploration and better health care.

Maybe this has more to do with our ego - losing perceived status as masters of the universe, when in reality hard, intractable problems exist more than ever. Why aren’t we changing to work on them?

Maybe the cost of software development has been actually a barrier to solving many of these problems, and society may be better off without that cost?

Are we the baddies?