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aeon_ai | on: America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
No, you're missing his.

Technology progresses. You're playing to an end-state of AI that assumes labor disappears entirely because you have yet to see what the new labor system looks like.

LunaSea | parent
Yes, because the "smarter tasks" that can't be automated and that become the new job sources don't exist.
ssl-3 | root | parent
We survived fine as a species when IBM's automatic machines replaced the ledger clerks of yore. That wasn't even such a long time ago.

We'll survive this transition as well.