Some people think that A(S)I will cause progress to go
hyper-exponential, causing a
technological singularity. But it may be, that what A(S)I will do, is just countermeasure
stagnation instead (remember Yuli Ban's Y2K trap?). So without A(S)I, we would see
very low rates of progress: 0.5% YoY GDP growth and 3% YoY computing/price growth. With A(S)I, we will see
moderate rates of progress: ~4% GDP growth and ~20-25% computing/price growth. But we won't see
Singularity-like crazy rate of progress, that some people expect: 20% GDP growth and 120% computing/price growth. So we do need A(S)I, but it won't cause everything to have almost vertical rate of growth.
Keep in mind that 4% YoY GDP growth will accumulate to 2550x in 200 years and 20% computing/price growth will accumulate to 6.86*10^15x (almost 7 quadrillion [in the short scale] times more) in 200 years. So we still can become Type 2 Civilization on the Kardashev scale. But we won't become immortal in 10 years or something like that.
Global economy doubles in product every 15-20 years. Computer performance at a constant price doubles nowadays every 4 years on average. Livestock-as-food will globally stop being a thing by ~2050 (precision fermentation and more). Human stupidity, pride and depravity are the biggest problems of our world.