You're talking about productivity gains through mechanization of labor. Increased automation has always led to jobs and professions going extinct. We don't hav

You're talking about productivity gains through mechanization of labor. Increased automation has always led to jobs and professions going extinct. We don't have typists or lamplighters anymore. It hasn't been a problem before because those people generally did just find new work. The present level of hysteria really is unprecedented. Coupled with that, the very explicit goals of AI are to remove jobs almost everywhere, forever. Paying people to work is now unfashionable. So jobs being automated has always been a thing, people have always worried about it and there was always someone opining about it in newspapers. The world moved on because we had a functional labor market. The current cycle is absolutely hysterically over-hyped. The end result won't be nearly as catastrophic for the labor market as Altman et al want you to believe. Mainly because their AI goals are almost certainly unattainable. However, the damage to the economy and labor market is and will continue to be quite severe. It won't be as bad as everyone wants you to think, but it's still gonna suck