We are already cognitively irrelevant without the assistance of books, pens, paper, and to a great extent computers.
Most of what we do is far beyond what can be held wholly in a single human mind or passed on exclusively verbally. A lot of it from vehicles to architecture to electronics couldn’t even be attempted without CAD and simulation. Without automation we would be unable to even feed and clothe the current population.
We are already way past the point where a naked human is enough.
AI will let us tackle problems that are even further beyond us like fusion, incredibly high density cheap batteries, high temperature superconductors, fully coherent theories of cosmology, and many other things we are not intelligent enough to do without augmentation.
There are of course huge risks around AI like all other technologies. Most of them revolve around people using AI to do bad things more cheaply and at a larger scale. But the same is true of computers, cars, etc.
Most of what we do is far beyond what can be held wholly in a single human mind or passed on exclusively verbally. A lot of it from vehicles to architecture to electronics couldn’t even be attempted without CAD and simulation. Without automation we would be unable to even feed and clothe the current population.
We are already way past the point where a naked human is enough.
AI will let us tackle problems that are even further beyond us like fusion, incredibly high density cheap batteries, high temperature superconductors, fully coherent theories of cosmology, and many other things we are not intelligent enough to do without augmentation.
There are of course huge risks around AI like all other technologies. Most of them revolve around people using AI to do bad things more cheaply and at a larger scale. But the same is true of computers, cars, etc.