AI's impact on nature, what are the pros and cons?

Yup. As far as I can tell, the only actual real major advancement we have had in AI is that somehow everyone has been convinced that all of this (picture me gesturing wildly at everything) is artificial intelligence.

Just a couple of years ago, if you asked people what “AI” meant, they would have described something much more…intelligent. The term used to refer to something which would (we imagined) be new and different, a real leap forward, an actual game changer.

What we actually have right now is just some incremental advances on existing technology, some of which has some impressively flashy niche uses. (For example, generating a photo of something you describe in text is just not that useful in the real world. There is clipart. There are stock photos. We used to have search engines to find these things.) “Real” AI is still science fiction. The only thing about the game that has changed is what we call it.