If AI really does end up revolutionizing all intellectual tasks, we'll still need to figure out what to do, what is right and best at any given moment. I doubt we will be willing to subcontract that out to the computers. Or will they be so smart that we don't have a choice?
I feel like it may be time to revisit Kierkegaarde and his idea that we all go back to the starting point in ethics, that there is no progress in ethics. Is that still true? Do new norms that get "materialized" and institutionalized into laws and best practices represent progress, or do they not? Obviously they're not perfect. The massive populist pushback to some of the stuff the critical theory-infused intelligentsia have foisted upon everyone else is a case in point. But this is likely all part of a dialectical process and the babies and bathwater will get sorted out.
In any case, and I have written about this before, as have others, wisdom will still be necessary in the future and humans are best placed to adjudicate what constitutes wisdom. We'll need to keep learning to have a little humility before our peers. Right now we need some collective resolve so that it doesn't all get sucked up by Thiel and the broligarchy.
One has the feeling, by the way, that the current Trump/Epstein frenzy suits the tastes of Thiel et al very well because if they could get rid of Trump and put a nice Christian boy like Vance in there, well, things would look pretty good for them. If not for us.
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