I sat in a conference room with 300+ other professionals in my field and they laughed that AI could take their jobs. I’m on the “top” of that pile of practitioners - I make my living in the niche where I’m the old expert who gets called in when nobody else can figure out a solution, or in the ordinary job to make sure it’s done right the first time. Easily 80% of my job could be replaced by AI, if my industry were a big enough cherry to pick. Luckily for them (and me) it’s not. For my industry the danger is that the AI will “solve” the problem of newly graduated professionals - the people who learn on the normal ways so that they can grow old and become the experts who understand the basics and work on the hard, unique conditions. If AI displaces the graduates so that I can increase my profits through a lower employee count, it’s really just shortchanging society 30 years down the road when we won’t have humans with hands on experience. That’s the societal danger we face if we aren’t careful. You and I can got on top of this, but if nobody behind us can there will be a gap in knowledge. (I’m re-reading Azimov’s Foundation series. It feels a lot less like the idle entertainment it did when I read it as a teenager)