> However, I don’t see a viable path forward where that occurs, and we all still have jobs. Why would I be kept around if a superhuman AI can do my job 1000x better and faster, and at a drastically cheaper price? Or, if I was kept around as a human QA agent, why would I be paid nearly what I am now?

Well as an AI doomer I agree with this. In my view you will lose your job, along with everyone else, and we'll just need to hope that those in power will give us some cash to feed our families. Ultimately us regular folks won't have the collective bargaining power of our labour and could not revolt with nation-wide strikes, nor are we any physical threat for those with power anymore.

But that's the good outcome. This assumes AI remains obedient to it's human owners and that bad actors don't have access and can't use it to create biological weapons and other civilisation-level threats.

I know we're not there yet, but the history of AI is one of continuous step changes in capabilities with each algorithmic breakthrough. AIs today are far more knowledgable and much quicker than humans, but still missing a few bits that keep them from being broadly super human. One or two algorithmic breakthroughs is all it takes though. It was just two breakthroughs over the last 8 years that took us from not even having code-autocomplete to having reasoning models advanced enough to solve math problems which have stumped humans for decades.