problem? i don't see it as a problem. and yeah i think that's where most people suspect we're going to go. the supposed coming war between humans and the machines they created is off-base. it's actually going to be a war between normal humans and humans who have merged with machines, and the human-machines are going to win. and if i'm still alive somehow i'm totally going to join them ;)
this has been explored in sci-fi for a very long time now
If you have a robot that has all the stuff it needs to be able to move on its own, it's basically animate. A stupid and simple example would be a robot capable of charging up their own batteries by hooking themselves up to a power source.
To be animate doesn't mean to be organic. It's about being capable of movement by oneself or itself.
Now if you give that robot an AI on the level of a human brain.... then it's a human.
There's a separation between those with technology and those without, and that separation will intensify as technology improves and economic disparity widens. It started a long time ago, but I think at some point there will be an advancement that will take the separation to a whole new level and there's no turning back at that point. I suspect it will have something to do with extending human life and capability to levels that seem impossible now.
i think it's pretty clear so far that the brain is what's important, if we can crack how that works (lol gud luck) then yeah i don't think a human is any different from a program