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What is the endgame with AI? What kind of jobs will be left, and what will our economy/society look like when this comes to fruition?

All non-biological "intelligence" is currently artificial. It behaves as programed (although the programming processes are more like training), and it has very little if any ability to retrain itself in a meaningful way. These machines are not even close to becoming self-aware. While there are economic impacts of large-scale AI, this is not a technology that will break-free and destroy the world.

That said, a time will come where machines achieve the same form of intelligence that humans have. These machine will almost certainly be self-aware. This is "machine intelligence" (MI), and it is likely decades away.

Everything on this topic is opinion, and here is mine: MI devices will differ from us in a lot of ways, including being intelligent enough to understand exactly how they work, and the ability to modify their operation. So imagine what a human might do if they had complete and absolute control over their feelings, thoughts and even perceptions. What would those humans become? That is what we can expect from MI.