This is a moment in history when WEIRD people and others (I mean of course people of western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic societies) are suddenly concerned with the appearance of artificial intelligence which can put words together as well as they can themselves.
The new software is wildly successful by some measures. It is enormously expensive to train, just like humans, and recreates past errors and prejudices without contributing any improvements. No wonder people are concerned. So long as the purpose of life is to find other people's previous answers to questions (which by definition must also be previous questions) we have made ourselves superfluous. More precisely, the software writers and those previous answerers make all the rest of us pointless.
I tell the high school kids working on math assignments the purpose is not to find the answer. "Your teacher already knows the solution to the equation," I say, "and if she didn't she could solve it herself without your help."
One of the kids from the recent past is a band student. Like most band members he does not write new music. He does not record the definitive editions of any musical performances. What he loves to do is form a group with the rest of the band class, get out their instruments, stand in front fellow students, faculty, family, and friends -- and play the music.
This morning I was conversing with a different student. He plays chess. I asked him, if a computer system could be made which was capable of beating any grandmaster in the world, would that end his interest in playing chess? "Not at all," he told me. He wants to play the game.
I told a Jordanian physics professor about my college experiences. I had a key to the physics lab in the basement of "Poole Hall". One day, for reasons unknown, I was trying to recall the formula for thin lenses. Rather than look it up, I went down to the lab with my notebook, pulled out the demonstration equipment for optics, ran the experiments, and recreated the formula. I did not need the formula; I needed metaphorically to "play the music".
What we humans want is to be human, to use our minds and bodies, and one way or another to do so together as a part of human society. We want to play the music.