Great news! On the AI thing, I don't know. The way it's being done in the US right now is just not sustainable. The amount of computational effort, i.e. energy, that is being expended on AI is out of all proportion to the benefits it's producing. It's more of an economic phenomenon than a technological one, I think. There is money to be made, but it's just from market capitalization of AI companies, i.e. it's a giant stock market bubble fuelled by greed.