Not only will they know more, work 24/7 on demand, spawn and vaporize at will, they are going to be perfectly obedient employees! O_o
Imagine how well they will manage up, given human managerial behavior just becomes a useful prompt for them.
Fortunately, they can't be told to vote. Unless you are in the US, in which case they can be incorporated, earn money, and told where to donate it, which is how elections are done now.
Seriously. Scary.
On the other hand, if Comcast can finally provide sensible customer support it's clear this is will be an historically significant win for humanity! Your own "Comcast" handler, who remembers everything about you that you tried to scrub from the internet. Singularity, indeed.
I'll take a robotic vote any day over any kind of conservative bullshit. It really can only get better here, not even kidding. At least if the last things humans do is releasing artificial life forms, its still better than backwards humans killing each other for nonsense tribalism or ancient fairytale books.
As much as humans make a mess of things, on a day to day basis there is more good done in the world than bad.
A temporary exception would be the economically still incentivized disruption of the environment. I say temporary, because at some point it will stop, by necessity. Hopefully before.
But I can relate to the deep frustration you are expressing.
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The problem isn't individuals, for the most part. The problem is that we build up systems, to provide stability and peace, and to be more just and equitable, by decentralizing the power in them. That way the powerful can't change them on a whim. (Even though they can still game them.)
But this also makes them very resistant to change.
Another effect is that as systems stabilize myriads of seemingly unimportant aspects within themselves, that stability represents the selection of standards and behaviors that give the system its own "will" to survive. That "will to survive" is distributed across the contexts and needs of all participants.
So any pressures to make changes, no matter how well thought out, encounter vast quantities of highly evolved hidden resistance, from invisible or unexpected places.
Even the most vociferous critics of the system are likely to be contributing to its rigidity, and proposing incomplete or doomed to fail solutions, because all these dynamics are difficult to recognize, much less understand or resolve.
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My view, is that this cost of changing systems needs to be accepted and used to help make the changes. I.e. get all the CFO's of all the major fossil fuel companies in a room. Establish what kind of tax incentives would allow them to rationally support smoothly transitioning all their corporate resources from dirty energy to clean energy.
It would be very expensive. It would look like a handout. Worse, even a reward for being a bottleneck to change.
But they are the bottleneck precisely because of all the good they have done - that dirty energy lifted the world economy. And whatever it cost to "pay them off" would be much less than not paying them off.
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The costs of changing systems needs be dealt with, with realism about the costs to get the benefits, and creativity and courage about paying for them.
Imagine how well they will manage up, given human managerial behavior just becomes a useful prompt for them.
Fortunately, they can't be told to vote. Unless you are in the US, in which case they can be incorporated, earn money, and told where to donate it, which is how elections are done now.
Seriously. Scary.
On the other hand, if Comcast can finally provide sensible customer support it's clear this is will be an historically significant win for humanity! Your own "Comcast" handler, who remembers everything about you that you tried to scrub from the internet. Singularity, indeed.