[SanderNL]

Your examples are all physical. Delegating physical action comes natural because we don’t define ourselves by it. We are not strong and not fast. We do not care either, so long as we have tools to help us gain advantage.

Cognition however is what defines our very soul. Being human is intricately linked with it in a way that the physical is not. Stephen Hawkings could be an example of that.

Ceding cognition presents a very real and existential problem for humans. What’s left? We have literally no other defining qualities.

About your examples: people are more obese than ever and cars certainly don’t help. Only the elite few have the resources to focus on something as useless as running fast. “We” as a society cannot run fast(er) and I’ll indeed argue that this ability decreased because of technology. Not that I particularly care about running.

[BulgarianIdiot]

This makes me recall... the Butlerian Jihad in Dune. The rise against "thinking machines". It seemed like a silly plot contrivance to avoid AI, and focus the story on humans, which we can associate with.

But now I'm starting to realize the author may have had deeper reasons to introduce this into the story. Because maybe he saw far into the future, and realized that a future with AI has no humans in it, at all.

[CatWChainsaw]

I unironically think we'll need one sooner than we think.