Feeling Superfluous? Unnecessary? Redundant?
Maybe you’re not depressed, just realistic. While Chat writes your term paper for you, this guy will keep you amused and distracted as human beings become an unnecessary inconvenience. When robots begin manufacturing themselves, and making improvements without being instructed to do so, they will in effect be reproducing and evolving.
The Brits, as usual, have a useful word for this. They did invent the language, after all. The word is superannuated. Too many years. Not just retired, which has a relaxed, even honorable connotation. No, living too long, beyond the point of usefulness. For an individual, this leads to thoughts of euthanasia. For a whole species…
The time to think clearly about the implications is now, not later, after this is already happening. That will be the time for regret.