I do believe that if nothing is done humankind could disappear. Scarcity of resources combined with the growth of the world population will lead to an increase of wars and perhaps a global war between several states which could generate a quasi human extinction.
There are several ways to prevent this. One of the solution is to make Humanity a Multi-Planetary Species. Elon Musk and SpaceX are working on this solution. Another solution could be to help researchers and engineers to solve problems. The way to do it is to provide them with the right tools. Could we create some tools which are able to find solutions to problems without human help ?
Actually IA demonstrates everyday (GPT3, Self-driving cars, AlphaZero ) that we are not far from being able to change the way we move, the way we work. All these tools represent a remarkable achievement but they are far from a true human intelligence. Morevover they are not as efficient as a brain. For example a brain can learn to recognize a specific type of owl with one image where the best neural networks need several hundreds of images to do the same.
I believe that the next frontier is to create an artificial brain which could mimic the capacity of the human brain. This blog is dedicated to my own research on this subject.