@cryptogee,

I just finished composing a lengthy reply to one of your posts from a couple days ago. But, before leaving your feed, I thought I'd see what else you'd created. In my full week on Steemit, you've created some of the best posts I've yet to read.

The whole reverse-god-creation angle ... great analogy! I'm a poet and can assure you, this would make an incredible poem. Another mythological association that comes to mind is Pandora's Box.

"Thinking" is all we've got left. Robots are already stronger and faster and don't need to eat or sleep. If we forfeit "thinking" to them as well, what's left for us to do? What's left for us to be?

One need not invoke SkyNet and Terminators to be concerned about AI. One need only consider the impact that AI will have upon employment. It takes years, sometimes decades, for humans to learn high-order thinking skills. If a computer could download those skills in seconds, what value would there be for entire swaths of the population? How will anyone earn a living? What profession will be safe from obsolescence? We're so concerned with efficiency, that we oft times overlook the effect.

Just because we can do a thing, doesn't mean we should. Self-preservation, you would think, would be motivation enough to tamp down hard on the lid of this particular ancient mythology.

@old-guy-photos sent me your way after I wrote a poem, accompanied by an in-depth discussion, on this very matter. I'd love to get your feedback. https://steemit.com/poetry/@quillfire/so-said-they-of-looms-poem-i-m-with-elon-musk-ai-has-the-potential-to-wreak-havoc