Change comes slowly, then all at once.
Sometimes. And often in unanticipated directions.
So for instance like if AI becomes slowly less relevant, then is discarded all at once. Change will be surprising! That much is likely.
I'm a pretty big AI skeptic, but can't get behind this comment.
It is changing the economy. It is changing how work is done. We are not going back, even if the emphasis in the workplace and role it performs matures.
"Matures", like fades into the background. That's kind of the null hypothesis.
I'm not making a serious prediction that it will go away! I'm making an anti-prediction against the reflexive assumption of a massive increase in importance, to say that for all any would-be oracle knows, we could get the opposite, just as easily as their fortune-telling.
I'm still patiently waiting for this whole "Internet" thing to become less relevant too. It surely is just a fad with no economic benefits.