Those people are worried about the wrong thing.
The bad outcome isn't that we put weavers out of a job, but that we're stuck weaving our clothes by hand forever. Same thing for art and coding.
The bad outcome isn't that we put weavers out of a job, but that we're stuck weaving our clothes by hand forever. Same thing for art and coding.
I'd actually be fine weaving clothes by hand a few hours a month if it meant I had no other work to do. But at the moment there are still people who don't own enough if any clothes and work far more than I do. And the question is if the people building AI can be trusted to liberate those people from slavery.
All the money the rich make by selling their robot products to who? Each other? Certainly not to the destitute workers, those don't have money.
I agree that there is a risk that a minority will hoard the new resources for themselves, only it's not this simple.