The problem I have though is with AI doing everything - even creative tasks - for humans is that I believe it will leave a void of purpose in us that I believe will lead to mass depression and mental illness. Furthermore, look at all my other points together, such as the impact AI will have on mass surveillance.

We’re going to become glorified pets of a higher intelligence. We might live more secure lives on paper because of that, but will we be “happy”? It seems that with AI we are cedeing what makes us as a species unique, and not only that but also what makes us the dominant species. We’re take the nightmare scenario of getting invaded by stronger, more intelligent aliens and bringing it upon ourselves.

> with a consistent script, zero plot holes

That’s what defines a “good movie” to you? K, interesting.

Honestly reading over your comment it sounds like you’re in dire need to connect with other people. There’s a weird not so subtle disregard for members of your fellow species present here that I don’t think my words alone could cure. Maybe some day a “therapist AI” will sort you out - after all you sound like you’d be more inclined to listen if the machine is talking to you.

Anyway, the benefit of legends to you personally is that they influence us to aspire to something greater. Everyone wants to leave a legacy behind, and the presence of AI limiting human achievement will leave a void of purpose in us that I believe will lead to mass depression and mental illness.

I made another comment here elaborating.

Ok, now address all my other points.

Also, setting hobbies aside for a moment, the fact that human artists, authors, songwriters etc will be replaced should be seen as a human tragedy. It’s sad to think that great creative individuals from Picasso to Paul McCartney will just be seen as a type of human from eras past, as even if you did write and record your own album in 2040 (let’s say for example), even if your songs were great enough that they would make you regarded as a legend in any other time period, people will assume you just used AI to make them - even if you didn’t.

Genuine human creative greatness will be completely disregarded - I don’t see that is anything but a tragedy.

I envy the older generation. I don’t want to live in a world where nearly everything is done by machines, where I can’t tell if the person I’m speaking to is real or a bot, where I can’t tell if the video I see actually happened or is a deepfake, where I can never find unique personal purpose or fulfillment in a hobby because a machine can do it better or faster, where all human purpose is made irrelevant due to hyper-intelligent machines doing everything (all art, research, writing etc) better, where mass surveillance is even more severe now as government-owned AI breathes down our necks tracking us in ways humans never could, etc.

I could go on, but I wish I was born in the 40s and died before 2010, as a happy old man who lived a normal, simple pre-mass social media, pre-AI life. Because thanks to AI, life doesn’t feel worth living anymore, and as a guy in my 20s, I dread how much life I have ahead of me.