Can Humans Think Like Humans? (Radical Self-Reliance in the age of AI)

In principle, the debate we're having is how to make Artificial Intelligence more human, more ethical, and how to treat it once it's achieved that. How do we get computers to live up to our standards? But the experience we are actually living seems to be going in the exact opposite direction. The AIs coming to market are designed to help us remove the burden of our humanity. That doesn't require them to "think" – it requires them to help us to stop thinking.