If you are a software developer - the question may have been on your mind.  But in my years of wisdom - to AI or NOT - that is not the correct question.

Do you know of the group of people from the early 19th century called the Luddites?  Yeah they resisted the mechanization of the mills... and are lost to history as a group.

The Luddites were a 19th-century movement of skilled English textile workers who protested against the use of automated machinery.

Do you know what Henrey Ford said about his innovation?  

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

If you want to take my fast horse... he will get you there by sundown.

One should not oppose progress, regardless of what people may say about it.  Peope are typically wrong about progress.  They get it wrong by not using it, by repeating what someone else said about it.  Never seeing the value in the progress; and then tend to measure the negitive imediate cost, without even trying to imagine the future's benefits.  Future prediction is a very unpopular profession - I've only seen one persons results that was truely extrodinary doing it (Ray Kurzweil).  If your track record is not nearly as good as Ray's - I don't need to listen to your reasoning.

I read a wonderful rant - from Everybody's Wrong :: I Trust Dogs and the Bond Market  I will wait right here... go read it.

If you remember that line about nuclear energy... well we are only 20 years from it becoming true!  Look up the guy who was wrong about it - Lewis Strauss. 

I think that is a picture of the first nuclear pile in Chicago, 1942.

The first nuclear reactor was erected in 1942 in the West Stands section of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. On December 2, 1942 a group of scientists achieved the first self-sustaining chain reaction and thereby initiated the controlled release of nuclear energy. The reactor consisted of uranium and uranium oxide lumps spaced in a cubic lattice embedded in graphite. In 1943 it was dismantled and reassembled at the Palos Park unit of the Argonne National Laboratory.

In 2026 we may be entering the 2nd phase of nuclear energy. 

In March 2026, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) authorized a construction permit for TerraPower’s Natrium reactor in Kemmerer, Wyoming, marking the first new commercial reactor construction approval in nearly a decade. This 345-megawatt sodium-cooled fast reactor, backed by Bill Gates, plans to be operational by 2031. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

AI energy usage compare to... say something you can wrap your mind around.

AI energy consumption is skyrocketing, with AI-specific server usage projected to rise from under 2 TWh in 2017 to over 40 TWh by 2023. A single AI query (e.g., ChatGPT) can consume 10 times more electricity than a standard Google search. Training large AI models contributes significantly to greenhouse gas emissions and requires immense water for cooling. [1, 2, 3]