I had experience working with seo specialist, most of people in seo are there because good money is paid by startups to bring there site organic traffic by whatever black hat seo method, seo stands a good marketing tool for these startups.
Very well put, like what's the point of doing work of the art if the art don't accompany artist story of struggle, mental experience and creative expression while reaching to end form of his art. What ai model does is rob us all inate experience and give us only cream of end result, it's is like watching porn instead of forming real relationship with person to win the sex.
I think not having egalitarian destribution of resources is real problem rather then overpopulation. Becoz as we see very few have most carbon footprint.
Biologically achieving agi seems easier, just clone human brain,or more evil organization can just use human captive and use there brain. As depicted in psycho pass anime.
I think this kind taste towards developing your own tools forshadow how programming will look like near future. There won't be dozens of abstraction to develop application and there won't be a playstore to hold millions of apps, there would be just a declarative language or Ai that takes human natural language and convert it to it and a black box that takes that declarative recipe and create the precise app according to user need. Instead Programmers there would be just a logicans and blackbox(AI system) that created most optimal way to accomplish the requirements. Creating application will be a end to end experience.