Why not? We should ask how the alternatives would do especially as human reasoning is machine. It’s notable that the errors of machine learning are getting closer and closer to the sort of errors humans make.
Would you have this objection if we for example perfectly copied a human brain in a computer? That would still be a machine. That would make similar mistakes
That it doesn't, that relentless stupid overconfidence, is why trusting this with anything of note is terrifying.