You need about 3 times more mining/drilling and processing of oil if we don't get there. Going to EVs is a net reduction in overall mining operations, but it shifts the demand to processing more lithium, copper, some nickel and some rare earth metals for magnets.

Well, the AI is already beating humans at the example you gave, the best accuracies on imagenet are now higher than humans.

But there are ways your data can be changed that can easily make AI superhuman. You can classify a full resolution image of a dog then compress and shrink it down before training the AI. A lot fewer humans could then see the dog in a tiny low-res image, but an AI could get it correct more just as often.

There are also AI that can improve themselves more than the human given data. The AlphaGo project started off with human Go matches as training data, and evolved into tabula-rasa training by self play. By the end, the AI beats the best human.

Not even auto grad.