As far as we know, the universe "just is". There is no universal objective value of human beings, at all, any one of us.
You have to make or find your own value in the universe. I try not to think too hard about the nihilist side and try to appreciate that for some unfathomable reason, I seem to have what I call consciousness - the ability to observe the present and have it superimposed on the past, and what may be the future, leading me to "experience" things. I don't understand it, no-one does (some people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect think they do, but they don't), and yet, here we are.
So it doesn't matter to me if machines perform better than I do, because already lots of other people do. Just try to find your own joy or meaning, somehow.
I don't know this. In fact, billions of people around the world don't know this. In fact, all evidence points to the contrary.
You have objective value being made in the image of a personal God. Denying that leads to a lot of pain, namely nihilistic suffering because it's on you to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" in any endeavor involving your own self-worth.
Literally nothing is rational about that. It's also just flat out off-topic.
Remember the phrase, you also don't believe in God. There are hundreds of gods you don't believe in.
Um. No? I'd like to see how you conjured up that one. Because evidence does indeed point exactly to things just being as they are.
"You have objective value being made in the image of a personal God."
Conjecture. Unsubstantiated.
"Denying that leads to a lot of pain, namely nihilistic suffering because it's on you to "pull yourself up by the bootstraps" in any endeavor involving your own self-worth."
No? Sounds like you're projecting your own belief here. "If I didn't believe in God, then what purpose is there to anything?" It's very small of a belief.
How does that work? The physical image? Or the mental image? Either has big problems. An omniscient god is so cognitively beyond a mere "7+-2" human that the latter claim makes no sense at all.
My $0.02: Your value as a person never had anything to do with your value to the economy. It's time to relearn that fact.
Check out some of Tom Hodgkins books for more. Or maybe anxietyculture.com.
Yeah, you gotta eat, but some of us have been slaves for so long that we've started to believe that our self worth is defined by what we will fetch at auction. It is not.
Read more about the Protestant work ethic, it's history, and what life was like before men began to assume it was the one true view of life. Not very long ago nobody had clocks, and the idea that work was an ethic was a fringe, almost cult-like belief system. Now most humans routinely take stimulants every morning to be better servants, and mistake their job for their purpose on earth. That's just nonsense our culture invented though.
If the master wants you to do something, force him get out the whip. Don't let him live in your head rent free by adopting his crazy belief system.
YOU decide what your value is. Don't abdicate the decision to someone else.
Companies and industries already use tools and machinery for tasks were once done by human beings. AI is just another tool they will use and it will probably replace human beings from some intelligence related tasks.
However that may bring more disruption to the society if the government in your country do not protect and help people and leave free rein to capitalistic greed.
I'm my opinion that already happened in the US, not by using AI, but merely by using H1B visa to get intelligence worker from abroad. What happened is that the companies are doing great and getting the best smart people in the world but American people and society have been disrupted.
Live your life fully, be good to yourself and to others. Don't worry about the market.
Sometimes it's easy for me to imagine a bad future like this; where most of the men are forced into military as the only org that still has use for wetware, and women are valued only for their ability to birth new people...