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Sure. But transition to new professions will be a lot slower than layoffs. We are likely to face unprecedented unemployment rates for at least several years before people learn new skills, and meanwhile AI keeps improving and automates more and more professions (manual labor, public service, etc). Are you sure new professions will appear faster than old ones disappear?

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You might be right. I don’t know if new professions will appear though. My guess is that people will transition to those existing fields that are less likely to be dominated by AGI.

Tech has already disrupted industries like travel agencies, print journalism, video stores, bookstores, stock brokers, movies, etc.

And you can see it coming for truck drivers, cab drivers, narrators and voice actors, etc.

So we’ve already lived through a taste of it, but this round will be much broader and much faster IMO.

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