Comment by rekabis
Throw climate change into the model, especially with the recent massive acceleration of temperature rise that now strongly suggests +3℃ shortly after 2035 and +6℃ by 2100, and human populations trend to zero by some time between 2080 and 2200.
And everyone with the money and power to do something materially to avoid this future is doubling down on BaU (business as usual) because it’s just so profitable in the near term.
Corporations may indeed be the slow version of A.I. They are nonetheless doing their part as alien intelligences to crowd out and eventually exterminate their carbon-based competitors.