Take any actual, serious problem X.

Then fire away: "Near-term AGI makes X moot. If AGI goes badly, we're all dead. If it goes well, [insert your favourite childhood fantasy about AI] will provide a solution to X."

Here's a useful blueprint if you want to take part in the Big Boys' discussion about modern problems but didn't know how to start: [1/2]

> Dad, uh, I was supposed to read 'Steppenwolf' for school tomorrow and, well... you're always into old stuff, please tell me what it was about!
> Fear not, son, lemme just refresh my memory a bit:

Żałoba narodowa po śmierci przywódcy wrogiego państwa. Takie coś to chyba tylko w Polsce...

No, of course they're not *literal* Nazis, it's not like they deny the Holocaust or something... oh wait...

This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.

W dechę