The industrial revolution didn't really make any work obsolete though. It just augmented human labourers so that they were more productive freeing up people up

The industrial revolution didn't really make any work obsolete though. It just augmented human labourers so that they were more productive freeing up people up to pursue other types of work. Humans still need to do agricultural labour, the only difference is that machines mean less humans need to do that as a percentage of the population. AI doesn't improve human labour productivity, but makes it obsolete in a similar way to how the combustion engine made the horse obsolete. What exactly are you going to do of economic value when an AI can do everything the human mind can do?