A lot of techno-optimists are now putting their faith in powerful general AI systems to analyze options, spin out scenarios, and offer new inventions and viable recommendations to get us through this global predicament.

My guess, however, is that if all the current data and projections based on the accelerating deterioration of our global biological support system were fed into a giant AI processor, the read-out might still be "42" But then, this might be machine language for "You're fucked."