The potential consequences here are rather more dire than slight shifts in the relative size of employment sectors. A hard takeoff of superintelligent AI could

The potential consequences here are rather more dire than slight shifts in the relative size of employment sectors. A hard takeoff of superintelligent AI could be an extinction-level event, or even the extinction-level eventuality that solves the Drake Equation and makes the universe devoid of life. I certainly can't say that the pessimists are correct, but I also can't say with certainty that they're incorrect. I do think it's silly to imagine that the only configuration for intelligence requires human-grade empathy, or that all sorts of differently-intelligent systems well below the complexity of the human brain, couldn't be lethal. https://intelligence.org/ai-foom-debate/ https://intelligence.org/ai-foom-debate/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_self-improvement https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Foom https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Foom https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer