I think better AI (of the can-be-engineered-given-what-we-know-today, non-generally-superhuman sort) is good, and I suspect that more AI research is the most reliable way to get it.

I agree that my exalted position and towering authority doesn't lend credence to contrary opinions I mention.

It's not clear to me whether advocating AI research here would be a better thing than other options, though it might be.