> Automating the printing press, building the cotton gin, widespread use of combines to harvest wheat (or whatever) - none of these led to mass unemployment. A

> Automating the printing press, building the cotton gin, widespread use of combines to harvest wheat (or whatever) - none of these led to mass unemployment. All the automations you have mentioned all automate a very specific task. AI on the other hand can potentially become the do-it-all automation. A universal automation. > but people will always find new things to do That’s no longer true if you have a machine that can do it all - that can match (or even surpass) humans in all (or even the vast majority of) activities. Every “new thing” it would do too.