> and probably never will

Do you mean that human intelligence is not general enough to recreate functions of existing physical structure that implements general intelligence?

I'm just not convinced humans are just biological computers and nothing more. The fact that we experience qualia and seemingly have free will leads me to believe there is some extra "special sauce" that makes it impossible for a classical computer to replicate.

Maybe someday it will be possible if we can solve the hard problem of consciousness in conjunction with quantum computing, etc.

> the hard problem of consciousness

does not involve any observable consequences. It can be completely ignored, if we don't go for mind uploading.

At least until computers master the task of creating intelligence that can do any one task better than humans.

I think the fear is that there's an implied "... yet" lurking here.