O'Reilly confuses Amazon as a single example with the industry in general. It's the same broken argument that people make all the time by pointing to som facto

O'Reilly confuses Amazon as a single example with the industry in general. It's the same broken argument that people make all the time by pointing to som factory that automated and had to hire new people. What people tend to forget here is by automating that company is gaining and advantage over others who aren't and will ultimately drive them out of business. So while the individual company might see an increase in jobs the industry in general doesn't necessarily. It's way more complex than even this as you can be in industries with growing demand ex due to globalization. But at the end of the day the same rule always apply. Companies in order to survive need to be more productive than their competitors and so technology will be used more and more until there isn't any jobs or only very few left. Also another thing that is often missed by those who claim new jobs will be created. Even if that was the case those jobs will be easier and easier to fill by AI. So it's not an argument for anything.