Doing our thinking for us is the purpose of AI, isn't it? It's called artificial intelligence for a reason.

AI is a broad term and ML aglos for playing chess fall under that since the 1920s.

AI may replace some cognitive activity, it also required cognitive intelligence to use 'slide rules' - which have been replaced and we have not looked bad.

It's not a bad rhetorical question - but it's moot in the face of the question of 'should we use it or not'.

It will do a lot of things for us - that part is inevitable and unavoidable.

We'll have plenty to think about.