AI doesn’t replace people anymore than computers replace people. It will increase what people can do. It will allow ordinary people to do what previously only specialists could do. Inventive entrepreneurial people will use it to do things not possible before, which people maybe never even thought of before. But in the end it’s just a tool.
The worst thing we could do would be to pay people to do nothing. We’re already doing it, and it infantilizes people and traps them on the bottom.
I suspect you did not grow up in that era when computers did indeed replace droves of office staff.