Re: Things that will happen rather soon, I think it's important that we also look at AI's impact on nonhuman animals. I argued it in this paper. AI-controlled drones are already killing animals, some AIs are helping factory farming, language models are showing speciesist patterns that might reinforce people's bad attitudes toward some animals (ask ChatGPT about recipes of dog meat vs chicken meat, or just google "chicken" to see whether you see mainly the animal or their flesh)

Actually, even for things that could happen in the far future, I think it's extremely likely that what AI will do will immensely impact nonhuman animals too.