Many friends complained that things they used to complete in 3 months, using their accumulated experience over many years, can now be done by AI in 5 minutes. Feeling a deep loss of self-value is inevitable.

Builders like me though, we deeply know that AI doesn't solve 99% of the problems in the world. They might even create more problems in the near future. For example, how does AI solve teens' mental health problems due to social media? How about loneliness epidemic which is getting worse with AI chatbots?

Amen, brother. There are so many problems left unsolved, especially relating to teens and seniors. We once again have a solution looking for a problem, but real human needs aren't considered. Something about weapons and mass surveillance (that would be the big bucks) gets attention. World society needs to stop falling for people who divide in order to conquer.

We are speeding to the "science fiction writer" point, where a visitors from outside remark "They had great opportunities but fought each other from day one and despite a few lucky breaks finally managed to kill everyone."

We are in fact living Twilight Zone episodes right now. I'm not a gambling person, but I see fights over our new weapon of choice (big data, not small drones) with increased power and water infrastructure attacks, because they're so frickin easy and getting easier, made to look like internal sabotage, because such a scenario would make a "great" case for cancelling elections, regardless of cause (the cause being negligence of security measures where they count, not an all-encompassing surveillance stae.)

Again, solving the wrong problem, but it's "right" for some people.