If we fast forward to the future, our relationship with generative A.I. will evolve. At some point it will no longer be new, and it will also be thoroughly integrated into our lives.
Foundational information technologies that we now take for granted were all once new. Studio recording of music, mass market book printing, motion picture recording, the pianoforte, to name just a few examples among many, were once seen by many as dangerous interlopers — fake things threatening to replace authentic things.
But eventually people figured out how to use those technologies as instruments to express human thought and emotion in ways that had never before been practical — or even possible. And now we forget that those things were ever more than tools which help to form our human culture.
The same thing will inevitably happen in our relationship to generative A.I. It’s not a question of whether, but of when.