Hankyoreh reports that carbon-neutral scenarios already count on technologies such as carbon capture that have not yet materialized, and that scientists who believe technology will solve the problem are less active in fighting climate change. How do you see the risk that faith in future technology makes us put off action now?

I think it is very dangerous. I am very skeptical of the optimism of techno-accelerationism. Though it may be a comfortable belief for individual researchers, from the standpoint of society I see it as the fastest shortcut to self-destruction. Unless we deliberate on what values are truly worth protecting and prepare for them in advance, someone will live their whole life without ever having those values.

The value I consider important, 'a society that gives individuals the belief that they can change the world,' is also impossible once the foundation of democracy collapses. Will the development of AI technology, which allows physical capital to multiply without the input of human capital, really benefit humans? Or will it benefit capital?