For those of us old enough to recall, this is the same kind of silliness we heard 35 years ago, except the word was “computers.” Computers were going to replace virtually all entry level workers. Humans would no longer be needed as computers would do everything. Computers were going to do this, going to do that. They took the same old mid 1990s hysteria and just replaced the word.
Here’s Shumer’s article. It’s a long read, but worthwhile, IMO.
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening
Yes, and when the first steam-operated back-hoe was introduced,
labor unions complained about how many union laborers would be replaced.