Once, a famous journalist and satirist mused of a human rebellion after which they destroyed their own sentiescent machines; which he incorporated into a far-future satire of trends he'd observed in his own day. This man was... Samuel Butler. (Heh heh heh.) Isaac Asimov, more a Franken-bro, preferred we keep the 'bots.
I don't think we're getting Skynet. Omar Shams at Palladium (where Casey Handmer also poasts) is talking- rather- pollution costs, ending in thermodynamics. Add also the thermodynamic effect of methanol-generators like Handmer's Terraform.
AI pollution, says Señor Solar, is our macguffinite toward a serious Lunar colony. The Moon can construct silicon wafers ... and raise them over the surface a bit so that moonquake doesn't shift dust over 'em. The caves then get supercomputers. The supercomputers, like Deep Thought, do our AI stuff for us.
My thought is that to hit us, before global warming let alone Skynet, is direct energy cost, like for air-conditioning. Governments, to protect us civilians, will limit what percentage of energy AI can buy off the grid; or, will tax the energy AiCorp makes for its AI to divert to said grid. They'll certainly throttle incoming requests - some procedural generation and Q&A could be deferred to home computers or that "blockchain" thereof. That's what I'd do. Probably what I'd vote for.
The Moon would also be a decent place to stick datawarehousing for corporate reports, archival Internet, bitcoin "mining", NP problems like "n-Body" yadda yadda. And to beam microwaves to orbital stations.
If we're really keen on bumping cheap energy, my 13:10:8 Venus-Earth Laplace or, warmer, George Smith's Venus Equilateral would work great. Bit more latency tho'.
REPOST: I'd written the core of this last Friday, I did not mean to slot it in for last week. Deerrrp. I guess it gets to be the first thing you read on Easter. Christ is Risen.
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