more and more people becoming comfortable outsourcing thought itself to machines.
I don't understand this. I am flawed. I am imperfect. I turn to smarter people for help and advice. Never, never, do I relinquish control over my thought. Over my writing. My research.
When I write a story, or an essay, I pay attention to the commas. They mean something. They help to communicate an idea. If a machine tells me where to put a comma, that's not my idea.
To me the most precious thing about being human is our independence, our will. All those classic Greek plays are about the protagonist's ego..pride...hubris. What would the Greeks think of us?
The Judeo-Christian Bible, the foundation story, is about asserting will, the defiance of Eve and Adam against the authority of God.
This is the human ethos--striving to assert our will, our independence. I don't get it. Why turn our 'selves' over to machines?
It defies human history. Literally, it's not human, and I think we will all regret it, probably when there is no turning back.
You can see I feel strongly about this one :))
So do I... and fully acknowledge your concerns.