For AI to impress me, it would have to secretly give me the winning lotto numbers before the drawing.
Well I don't know about lotto because it is fundamentally random.
But ASI will certainly make every single encryption method we have from https, to your bank's security systems, to the safe-guards to our nuclear weapons, quaint and obsolete in a micro-second.
It may or may not be the end of us, but not pushing full ahead and letting our adversaries achieve it first would absolutely, positively, irredeemably be our destruction and subjugation.
We absolutely, positively have no logical choice but to be first and ASI harden our society before Sino-Russian ASI comes after us.
This is IT. This one's for ALL the marbles, kids.