This coincides with the recent news about how "fake video" and "fake audio" are approaching the point of being impossible to distinguish from the real stuff. So pretty soon (or maybe today, with the secret / bleeding edge tech), it'll be possible to create fake videos of any celebrity (or you, or me) saying ANYTHING.
The divide between what roles humans play, and what roles robots play, will be VERY distinct - more so than today. Humans will be unreliable, unscientific, and plain weird - but they'll also have the unique strengths of emotion and unexpected cognition (aka art).
A robot might be president, but it would be a different kind of president. I suspect we'll always want humans to fill the emotional / inspirational roles, so robots will take over the "boring" stuff.
Yeah totally expect this to happen ever since playing Metal Gear Solid. Just wonder if there's gonna be some central AI that'll personalise feeds with fakevideo/audio for people on the fly without any way to cross check well enough lol. https://steemit.com/asksteem/@kevinwong/is-total-information-censorship-manipulation-possible
Yeah i believe this can't be automated away.
Lying is a creative act, but clearly not limited to homo sapiens, or even primates- regardless one's value assigned to it, it's inarguably creative ("unexpected cognition" in your words), yet it succumbed to cybernetic analysis and manipulation years ago. I really don't think any human skill or capacity is more than about 15 years from effective automation, and probably nearly all have already been in the most advanced lab environments. I think it's foolishly short-sighted to avoid talking about this seriously with a view towards actually developing some sort of symbiotic relationship with inevitable technology, as the alternatives are far less than satisfying.
Exactly, it's easy to have this conclusion if one isn't a human supremacist xD