Just to be sure I understand the cohort you're describing, could you point to one of them? Just one.

Just one psychopath with a "doctorate in psychological" who is presently working in advertising, and who is enjoying his mansions, yachts, etc. as the result of ad campaigns he designed specifically to target children, resulting in warped minds and suicides.

Your caricature is very melodramatic, but after decades in children's media I can say with confidence that the ad execs charged with reaching children to sell some configuration of sugar and/or plastic are emphatically not highly educated masters of child psychology, nor are they lavishly compensated. They are, by and large, the back-benchers who haven't graduated to top-tier clients like automakers, sportswear, and tech companies.

I mean, have you seen commercials for toys, breakfast cereal, fast food, and other consumer products designed specifically for children? Have any of them since the heyday of 1980's cigarette ads struck you as ingenious masterworks of psychohistory?

Successfully growing trees on a tropical island isn't what I'd call a proof of concept. The ability to desalinate water with solar power isn't in doubt. A bigger problem with recovering desertified land is that all the topsoil is gone.

The catch is you're still on a Frontier plane

I'm not seeing any errors in what he said, aside from the spelling. Pretty easy to substantiate all of that.

emergency circumstances being the first and foremost example of what an automated system could not adequately handle unaided

I disagree. Emergency circumstances are when I would MOST trust an automated system to choose and execute the best response quickly.

"Each of those agencies will be allowed to provide input during the early stages of the development of these new computers."

Isn't that how we got the $388 Billion broke-dick F-35 Joint Strike Fighter?