I've been trying my best to think of something that AGI could do which I really love and deeply endorse.
I can think of some nice things. New kinds of animals. Non-habit-forming heroine. Stupid-pointless-disagreements-between-family-members fixomatic maybe. Turn everyone hot.
None of this makes me joyful and hopeful. Just sounds neat and good. Humans seem pretty damn good at inventing tech etc ourselves anyway.
I think I might have assumed or copy-pasted the "AI is truly wonderful if it goes truly well" pillar of my worldview. Or maybe I've forgotten the original reasons I believed it.
What exactly did that great AI future involve again?
Oh I love this answer. Seems like pretty narrow AI would be adequate though. Also the same tech could probably be used to eg start or stop revolutions. Inspiring anyway.