This has been a problem for millennia, not just a problem for today. There are so many examples in the last 150 years of knowledge lost because of a change in h

This has been a problem for millennia, not just a problem for today. There are so many examples in the last 150 years of knowledge lost because of a change in how we do things. AI's won't be the trouble here. It will be people who no longer care about skills that were once taught. As far as driving is concerned, there are many today who do not or cannot drive due to where they live. Self-driving vehicles will just mean a different form of transport is now available for use. AI's will never be able to answer all questions we need or want. Less so than today. Even with the current computer systems we have, there are so many questions that cannot be answered, we don't know the answers and in many cases we don't even know the questions. It takes a great deal of skill to manufacture anything and though we have machines that can do the duplication, there are many instances where humans have to check that the machines (the robotic systems) have done the correct job. It takes a human judgement to see if everything in acceptable limits. No machine system, as yet, has been given free reign to do an entire process from start to finish without human intervention, as there is far too much that can go wrong. We have such a lack of appreciation of our past that we happily go into the future based on the current or next fad that comes along. As a programmer getting up to the four decades, I see so many things coming along that are touted as the Next Big Thing that are duplicates of previously rejected ideas that failed the test from years and decades ago. We don't learn from the past so we make the same mistakes. We already form guilds and have done so for millennia, not so that we protect the information we have accumulated but to censor and hide that information from those who are not guild members. Being open and sharing our knowledge will do more to preserve it than forming guilds. Actually documenting what we do is extremely important but we tend to get throw out old manuals and documents and source and drawings/blueprints, etc. History is just repeating itself. As humans, we do not value what we can learn form days pasts and often we consider ourself to be more technologically, socially and morally more advanced than those who have lived before us.