My hope is ai (or alien intervention).

If it wakes up, a super intelligence could save us. And I think it’s heavily inclined to do so

And if it doesn’t wake up (LLMs very likely won’t) but keep getting smarter, it’ll blow up economic systems while empowering individuals to crazy degrees. A single person could coordinate everyone on Earth taking action to save the world, while dispationately distributing resources.

Or, it could just blow up the markets, giving us the time to try a better system before higher technology is ripped from our fingers