We have entered a new zone in human development, one where our machines are very nearly as good as creating things as we are.
This is a bizarre new world that we are not nearly ready for. And yet here we are!
The most common thing that people are talking about is the jobs, and whole industries, that are about to be disrupted.
That's serious.
Even more serious is the worsening of the global credibility crisis. Now there can be photo/video evidence of absolutely any truth claim.
We need to rediscover/re-assert the value of being human.
We currently have a number of subjective, relatively trivial, and non-binding attributes that we assume to be human. With the expansion of the internet, we're learning how limited our definitions have been.
We may be unable to make universal statements.
For example, regret. Do all humans regret? I'm not sure. But a computer at this point cannot experience regret. (I'm not saying this will never be possible, but it's impossible now.)
@Wbtphdjd I agree with both of those statements.
Technology that has no capacity for regret is a dangerous thing to outsource decisions to, especially significant ones.
One particular public figure comes to mind who seems incapable of feeling, or at least expressing regret. So it can be valuable without being universal.
Yet when we start to make binding non-universal statements about what makes human beings valuable, there is always the danger of further marginalising people on the margins.