Are We Becoming Irrelevant?

There is fear that the recent, radical advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics will open far fewer doors than they close. Consider all the driving, delivery, writing, editorial, and even software development jobs that will come to an end as AI progresses. And yes, I wrote "software development," as one of the disturbing abilities of at least one AI is its ability to create executable code.

Our society is already a thing of regression, for we are forgetting or willfully abandoning many of the basic underpinnings of American existence. To wit: writing in cursive is mind-boggling to modern students and is largely not taught in schools; the English language is polluted by the overzealous use of acronyms, emojis, and the proprietary misspellings of words or phrases to meet corporate needs; the fundamental concept of the mathematical order of operations is now a foreign concept to many; and our cities devolve into chaotic expanses when basic services are unavailable for significant periods of time as residents now lack the basic knowledge of their immediate ancestors and are unable to prepare for and survive a crisis.

Accordingly, it is my firm belief that the advances in technology and their unrestricted implementation will have a degenerative effect on the public's command of the English language. There will certainly be a benefit for the few, but for the many, the need or desire to thoroughly grasp the English language will likely no longer be of any major concern and the lack will be of no consequence. Accordingly, there will be no impetus to learn advanced topics in communication when AI will handle it for the writer or speaker. Moreover, given most communication is targeted to persons of average intelligence (or less), then the elegant words of history's great writers and speakers will finally be silenced not by war or censorship, but by incomprehension and social apathy.

I am passionate regarding this topic as we humans have finally advanced to the point where the creation of colonies and bases on the moon, Mars, and beyond are imminent. Ours is a story of progress—of flesh-and-blood human progress—from caves to the stars, and AI holds the promise of undermining its creators and wholly removing humanity from what is gradually becoming the thing formerly known as human existence. 

-TechRider