AI is already a side-hustle for me so as far as I’m concerned... Yep! It created one more job than it took. lol
Yes, there will always be work for smart and ambitious people. But with each passing day, there are fewer of both.
Since you’re working with AI, I’d be curious about your opinion: I think that AI will be fantastic in narrowly-focused practical applications, like autonomous guidance in self-driving cars and autonomous air vehicles, but I can see no way that general AI will ever be trustworthy enough to rely upon it. I just can’t see any way that general AI, given unfettered access to all the world’s information and allowed to create its own associations between all those pieces of data, will be auditable by humans. It will constantly be making errors and even fabricating some of its answers, but the internal processes will be so complex and novel that no human or team of humans would be able to keep up with what it was doing and audit and correct the results. It would become the ultimate “black box.” My biggest concern is not that we will see Skynet come to life, but that ignorant humans will place too much blind faith in the results it spits out, naively believing that it must be infallible. The alternative is to never fully trust it and put a veritable army of humans on the job of checking everything it concludes, both of which would negate the point of general AI in the first place.