This is indeed an imaginary problem. Do we really think that people who do lower-level jobs can't be trained to do higher-level jobs? The same thing was said du

This is indeed an imaginary problem. Do we really think that people who do lower-level jobs can't be trained to do higher-level jobs? The same thing was said during the industrial revolution. If we make tractors, what will happen to the people who toil in the fields by hand? Those people ended up running the machines. Now all of a sudden we are somehow sure that when the people running the machines get put out of work by higher-order computing, those people won't be able to adapt? Not buying it. The human mind has a lot of plasticity. It learns to grow and change based on its environment. IQ has gone up in developed countries. We are clamoring for a problem that doesn't yet exist, ready to provide a solution that won't give people what they need the most: a feeling that they are a valuable part of society. It's pure arrogance to predict that people can't learn new trades, that there are people currently functioning in society who will one day be too dumb to be part of society.