When does it end, though? How many human beings can this earth support? At what cost of natural resources, flora/fauna, environmental harm?

AI is increasingly taking over jobs that previously required humans. How many humans are actually needed to support current populations? How many of these now-displaced humans will enjoy enough resources to sustain themselves while increasing humanity’s knowledge base, artistic pursuits and general intellectual/emotional enlightenment?

These are not rhetorical questions. I don’t know the answer to these things. It seems to me that increased population for the sake of population growth itself is not correct.