We can argue back and forth about the definition of power. Right now, ML has had very little actual impact. And it is very far from the sort of "skynet" general intelligence that people are afraid of. Those are just facts.

Personally I view it as no different to the hype over crypto or the fact we get a huge breakthrough in fusion every 3months but somehow never get any closer to an actual commercial reactor...

Meanwhile, we KNOW as a fact that climate change is going to be devastating. And there are numerous areas with nuclear wars brewing from far east to Europe.

I get that a super AI is a more interesting thing to worry about. But we need to deal with out actual, serious, issues first IMHO.