... to put every penny, every calorie and every gigawatt we've got into general artificial intelligence, creating basically a silicon God that'll fix anything.

Anyone that read the stories of Doctor Faustus, or seen Fantasia with the Sorcerer's apprentice, or any other tale where someone is tempted to go for the ultimate power or knowledge, where they try to grab that ring ... etc. Not a single story ends with that someone comes up with roses.

There's a lot in our mythical memory, as well as our historical memory, and all we ever do is to kick the can down the road for a greater more complex problems, instead of solving our earlier ones.

Maybe I'm wrong, maybe GI one day will rule the world as we wish, and we'll have no issues anymore!