[Nateman]

One great thing about automation: it does not need to breath. Our Solar system has been very successfully explored by robots. Imagine these machines manufacturing things instead. It would be such a giant leap in production that the Industrial Revolution will look pale in comparison.

[telescope115]

Automation is but one thing. The fine motor skills of a skilled tradesman in performing delicate tasks are another. The fine touch and critical eye of someone with many years of experience will be difficult to replicate by AI.

Or the arts- a computer may write a symphony but will it be able to inject feeling into a performance by synthesized instruments?

Real world experience can’t be learned overnight by a computer, or a human.

AI will have useful applications, but in training and trusting it to do more and more, we must take care not to lose what makes us human.

I fear that we will begin to depend upon AI so much that eventually AI will become another “bureaucracy” that will start telling US what to do. If it eventually becomes self-aware, it may become judgmental and critical of its creators.