"AI could invent free renewable energy."
Or, y'know, we could deploy the stuff that works and is already cheaper than the fossil alternative, while doing the hard political work of figuring out how to pass the savings on to households, balancing the interests of shareholders and ratepayers.
AI could, quantum computed could, some girl in Cambodia could. Pure nonsense.
In any period of the last century there have people speculating about some trendy technology solving everything. And they always solve something, but they are always very far from solving everything.
Those people should stop selling smoke.
I totally agree with you: we already have solutions. What we need is to deploy them, not to wait for something that could happen, but very likely won't.
