I think the problem is that the statement is more like:
"Eventually we won't even need you and you can go die in a ditch somewhere while we party on our very large boats."
You reminded me of an interesting article from 10 years ago, so I went ahead and re-posted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44119705
Google's "support" is a robot that sends passive aggressive mocking emails to those who were screwed over by another robot that made up reasons to lock them out of their digital lives [1]. It allows Google to save a ton of money while evading accountability.
It's the same thing with the latest overhyped robots. It won't even matter whether or not it's actually competent at the thing it's supposed to do. It will replace people regardless.
> "Eventually we won't even need you and you can go die in a ditch somewhere while we party on our very large boats."
Exactly. If...
>> “isn’t it cool how this can replace the work that you do? Eventually we won’t even need you and you can go get a hobby to spend the rest of your life.”
...was even remotely true, we'd have already had that outcome, before AI.