.. or some other barren, remote piece of land (or sea? or ice?) on Earth. Any location on this planet is more accessible to Starship than either the Moon or Mars, since it can be reached with a suborbital trajectory. All the requirements of self-sufficiency with only Starship to travel in and out could be tested there.

Whether or not the AI internally has conscious experience, there is value in our treating it with respect as if it were. The way people (humans) behave in one situation influences how we behave in other, similar situations, so the way we treat the AI can influence how we treat each other. If people can treat AI entities as disposable tools and companies can treat them like slaves, then it's just that much easier for us to treat other humans the same way.

Some on-site worker commute 90+ minutes in each direction, also uncompensated. This is the remote worker's equivalent of commuting to work, and so so much shorter.

Whenever a population of living creatures faces some new environmental constraint to their reproduction or survival, their population shrinks. Even so, individuals or subgroups adapted to the new environment emerge and grow. Eventually these become the ancestors of the new, growing population. It happens with bacteria (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plVk4NVIUh8) and many other organisms, so why wouldn't we expect it in humans too? The result isn't human extinction but the next phase of human evolution.

Companies now are not hiring as many new college grads as developers though.

Yes, they could eliminate half of all white collar jobs because half of them are useless anyway, various managers, specialists and analysts who spend most of their time justifying their own existence and fighting each other for control and budget dollars. AI is just a timely excuse to cut this waste.

We already operate code generating machines known as "compilers". Generative AI may enable a higher level of abstraction between a developer's intentions and executable binary code, but the developer's role is fundamentally the same.

Use high corporate taxes on revenue, but offset by equally high tax breaks per decently compensated employee on the payroll. A firm with huge revenues but very few employees will be taxed heavily, whereas one with equally huge revenues but thousands of well compensated employees will not.

A reputation for helping other entrepreneurs build profitable businesses could be translated into money. It would take patience, though, which is in short supply.

Assign these people some non-technical or quasi-technical responsibilities, like writing and reorganizing documentation, coordinating efforts with other organizations, or identifying legacy systems that are no longer in frequent use. These are tasks using knowledge they probably already have that are often neglected by IT teams.

Even more so because grammar is a moving target. In 100 years, "r u rly ok? wtf!" may be formally correct English (or whatever they call it by then).

The private sector has become very good at identifying human wants and monetizing them. Now if they could just figure out how to provide economic stability as a product/service. Even the illusion of stability would improve people's state of mind, and has value.

Cheaper fuel and building materials in space could enable new space ventures that today are "too big to launch"

Since the purpose of review articles is more pedagogical than original research papers, it could make sense to accompany a review with some video lectures.

IMO, it's mainly that the rest of the Universe is so much more vast than this one world, and inhabiting any part of it besides Earth will likely require some kind of artificial environment. If humans figure out how to live indefinitely on Mars or Venus, we can eventually do the same in most other star systems, of which there are billions just in this galaxy.