True but I argue that the current hype about AI replacing jobs has much more to do with media clickbait than any real issue we should be worrying about right now.
If your business is selling ads next to cheap content, it's a great story - scares people into clicks. That to me is a real issue here. How do we prevent the media pandering scare-content like this?
For those old enough remember the "Y2K bug" that was going to have planes falling from the sky on the stoke of midnight 2000 there's a great analysis of the press's role in this at http://www.flatearthnews.net/chapter-one-bug-ate-world ...
> "Encouraged by these stories, some governments had spent fortunes in public money (and secured no better result than those who spent next to nothing). Journalists reported that the British government had spent £396 million on Y2K protection. They also reported that it had spent £430 million. And that it had spent £788 million. The American government had spent far more, they said - $100 billion, or $200 billion, or $320 billion, or $600 billion, or $858 billion, depending on which journalist you were reading. Anyway, it was a lot. Beyond that, the private sector had spawned a mini-industry of companies selling millennium bug kits, while publishers turned out bug books and bug videos, and estate agents sold bug-resistant homes, and a few families sold their houses and fled to remote cabins in order to give themselves a chance to survive the coming bug-related chaos. But this was not a story."
> "The sun rose on January 1 2000 like the lights coming on at an orgy. Everybody who had been so busy - the journalists, the governments, the bug-related businesses and the computer experts - all picked themselves up, hoped nobody was looking and quietly tip-toed away."