How AI is shaping our future in a bad way

I just read a comment on a AI video that I liked. It's a talk from a former OpenAI scientist that was recorded in Toronto this year (2025) days ago I post this. It's exactly how I would express what I feel about AI if I knew how to write better. I'm pessimistic about AI, but I don't see it any other way for now.

"This right here is one of the most accurate snapshots of what people are actually feeling right now—a mix of fear, grief, betrayal, and nostalgia—and honestly, every bit of it is justified. What we’re seeing isn’t just about AI automating jobs, it’s about the slow erasure of meaning itself. People who’ve spent years mastering a skill are suddenly irrelevant, not because AI helps them, but because it overshadows them completely. It’s not just tasks being automated—it’s identity. And the worst part? The very people warning us about the dangers are the same ones who built this thing, made their billions, and now act like prophets of doom after cashing in. It’s hypocresy wrapped in moral panic. There’s also this heavy mourning vibe—a longing for a time when simply being human had value, before everything was measured, optimized, and scored by algorithms. The warnings aren’t even subtle anymore. We’ve had decades of movies predicting exactly this moment, and now we’re watching it unfold in real time. And still, we act like we’re the ones in control. We're not. That illusion is probably the scariest part. The truth is, this isn’t just a tech disruption—it’s a civilizational trauma response. We’re disillusioned, alienated, mentally exhausted by the speed of change, and we don’t trust the people steering the ship. So the real question isn’t “Can we stop AI?” It’s “Who are we going to be in a world shaped by it?” Because if we don’t reclaim what makes us human—connection, meaning, purpose—then it’s not going to be humans vs AI. It’s going to be meaning vs machinery. And the machines don’t care."