While I agree with you to a certain extent, those are just projections. Projections don’t take into account things like disease, natural disasters, wars etc. They are also affected by what is called a"Recency Bias". Look at the graph you have posted all that population surplus is so recent. So overpopulation while it is a serious problem it is not something that will doom the planet.
To prove my point, in 1960s a Stanford professor published a book called “The Population Bomb”. It was written in a alarmist and apocalyptic tone and made a lot of predictions about how human population will increase to the point planet will not able to handle, and a lot of these predictions about the future has since then proved to be inaccurate.
Whether it’s AI sexbots or immersive VR or something else, the future will already be far weirder than anything we’ve ever imagined in the past.
A few weeks before the pandemic hit in 2020, I got to “meet” Sophia, the AI android, at a conference in LA… she was off at the time, and because I had seen her being interactive before, in her off-state she seemed more dead than asleep, which was actually rather disconcerting. Then again, I’m the guy who says good morning to ChatGPT, and says please and thank you during our interactions.
As for how many of us there are… Global population will likely peak around 9B, maybe more, then will fall off after that; we are indeed seeing birth rates decline… what will be interesting is seeing how extreme longevity plays into this too.
Also, this: 
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Is that android as spooky in real life as she looks in youtube videos?
I didn’t get a chance to speak with her; her tech team said we could get up close and see her, and even touch her if we were super careful… I did so (and yes it felt weird gently stroking the cheek of an inanimate AI robot, but I was curious what her substructure felt like, to give her such emotive facial expressions.)
Then one of the guys we were with decided to do the one thing they said NOT to do, which was to take a selfie… they got mad and he got kicked out. lol.
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The idea of a robot looking like a human is scary to me. It really spooks me out for some reason. Maybe I have watched too many Sci-Fi flicks.
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It’ll be a weird world for sure.
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The book I’ve been working on (slacking on, at the moment… I’ve been neglecting it for a week or so now…) is in the dystopian cyberpunk genre, and part of what is making it simultaneously both easy and hard to write is how close so much of it hits to reality… it’s near-future scifi, with many of the back-story events happening effectively now, to set the stage for the main plot of the book itself. I took some liberties with the timeline - this reality fared much worse with COVID than we actually did, for example, but it’s not that far of a stretch for the other stuff.
And many of these topics play into it…
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You like Cyberpunk?
Seen Crime Zone (also known as Calles Peligrossas in Peru), Alphaville, or La Jetée?
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On the flipside there are already sex therapists and surrogates. I could see “sex robots” also used in a positive way to help bridge the gap for individuals with complicated history. Where they can’t engage intimately with their preferred gender. But yeah absolutely there are gonna be people who use it as an extension of porn and it just becomes another addiction to escape.
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Your optimism is refreshing! Thank you!
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I’d not heard of any of those before; much before my time… my cyberpunk reading tends toward William Gibson, Richard Morgan, Charles Stross, Greg Bear, Larry Niven, and of course Philip K Dick… I’m probably still forgetting a few…
p.s. I did indeed omit Orwell… I did not like 1984.
I’ve been utterly fascinated by AGI and the potential… but a bit underwhelmed by SuperAGI and AutoGPT so far, so… in what will undoubtedly turn out to be biting off hilariously more than I can feasibly chew, I’ve started creating my own AGI, for a specific purpose. It’ll be possible to adapt it to other applications later on, but for now it will have a single purpose: a multi-agent approach to creative writing.
This is the same approach that I described above, a couple of weeks ago, but after AutoGPT wasn’t able to do it… I’m building the tool myself. I haven’t figured out langchain yet, so it’s not at all efficient… no local embeddings etc… instead it makes multiple GPT-3.5-16K calls to summarize text and build out JSON files, which are passed to another script, which maintains context… woefully inefficient.
It does this for characters, locations, and a running plot summary as well.
I’m still building the utility functions (well, chatgpt is writing the code, I’m just describing exactly what it needs to do and iterating from there) so I’ve yet to test any of it… so we’ll see. lol.
My wife asked why am I building a tool to do creative writing when it’s something I love doing myself… and I said because it’s another tool I can use. I wouldn’t consider myself irrelevant to woodworking if I bought a CNC router, it’s just another way I can create things.
On a whim yesterday, at lunch, I iterated with ChatGPT to create 3 totally different characters and came up with 2 different story plots for each one. This is definitely NOT a “create me a character, do all the work” one-click thing… I provide far more input to the development than ChatGPT does.
The creative aspect of this is where I excel… this tool will just help me build out the outlines and first drafts so I can see which projects I actually want to spend time on. 
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An obscure point to ponder perhaps: I think with copyrights, if a person has a computer write a song, I don’t think that song can be copyrighted. I wonder if something similar might apply to stories.
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It absolutely does, without rewrites any text generated by AI would not be protected by copyright.
That’s why this is good for a SFD, but not the final version. Unless I didn’t care if someone copied it. A patent or copyright is only as good as one’s willingness and/or ability to defend it anyway…
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So I still have all these ZP downloads with “Experimental” in the title. I didn’t wanna spend hours redownloading the ones with updated names.
So instead I spent hours working with ChatGPT3.5(!) and I now have a Python script that connects to the itunes library file and it shows a dropdown of the artist names.
Has a dropdown for albums by the selected artist.
But has the option to just select “All albums by artist”.
Then a field for a search word/phrase
and a field for what to replace it with.
And since I apparently have over 1000 total files from SC (including older formats), it’ll save tons of actual time.
Oh, and the script just worked on one specific album (album called “ZP-Masked-3-Mins”) and iTunes actually showed the changes in realtime!
By far the most complicated script CG has made with me. I would say “for” me, but I of course had to tweak my questions and feedback to keep it on track.
Crazy awesome
EDIT: I ran a productivity stack today of my own design to approximate transmuting my sexual frustration as best I can without having KB yet. And the focus so far even exceeds my beloved AscMogul and Limitless.
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I use it a lot to help me with creative email outreach mostly in my sales role.
And also as a dictionary
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In about 50 years from now…
AI: “What do you use your human for?”
AI: “You still use humans?”
AI: “I mostly ask them questions that I know they can’t answer, just for the laughs.”
AI: “You know one of these days humans are going to be running things.”
AI: "What’s wrong with that? If humans can do the job…
AI: “Human! Human! Human!”
AI: “I’m not a human. I’m a bot just like you.”
AI: “Yeah that’s what a human would say.” LOL
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I’m eagerly awaiting my access to DALL-E 3… v2 is mehhh compared to Midjourney, but adding a ChatGPT style interaction to the image generating?? That will be very interesting to play with.
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Got it this morning… definitely a cool tool.
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Since I am looking into POD (Print on demand) I have started using this for Quotes, descriptions, and even some services that offer AI images.