In one respect, AI is already damaging the sense of self worth of swathes of humanity by making them economically redundant. This will be an accelerating threat for sometime.
While I can empathize with the emotions behind that argument, it's rather hard to be persuaded by it. Jobs can become redundant, but people can't insofar as they can be retrained. If we're talking about what harms people's self worth, I'd imagine that telling people they're redundant is a lot more dehumanizing than having them retrain for new positions. In any case, human beings are remarkable adaptive. It's one of o…
Easier said than done. What are they going to retrain to? As AI continues to advance, more and more jobs will necome redundant. CGP Grey did a great video on this[1]. Even if you can't completely replace humans, often times, obe person will be able to do the job that used to take several. Where do those others go? What will we as a society do if for example AI-based Expert Systems make 90% of accountants and office clerks redundant? We can't retrain all of them to become doctors and scientists, can we?