I'm personally somewhat worried about the way modern society enables people to have less and less physical interactions. Imagine a future where it's commonplace to attend an online university, work from home, get goods, food and groceries delivered by a robot (don't even have to talk to a driver). Now, if we had chatbots that passed the Turing test, and always basically told you what you wanted to hear without ever challenging you, then what?
I'm worried we're going the way of Japan and its 'herbivore' culture. A world where people have given up on dating because it's too complicated. Other human beings are uncomfortable to interact with, so everyone retreats into their own little bubbles and gets more and more of their needs met by machines... On an individual basis, it a seductive idea to have an idealized robotic partner that does exactly what you want when you want it and doesn't have any needs of its own, will never leave you, but what will that do to humanity as a whole?
Yea. I think think the most likely scenario our civilization exists in is that we are coming up on a bunch of Great Filters, and this is just another one of them.
There's probably virtually infinitely many (just as life has infinitely many ways to kill an individual or group in pre-modern times).
Also, just as in prehistory, it would have taken visionary and moral heroes to build for their future's survival. But today, the role of those who have those concerns is not important in civilization anymore...
People also seem to be wanting to get more drugged up, plastic, and bio-engineered.
Maybe in the future the average person is the meeting somewhere in the middle.