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Agreed, to an extent. Like what we saw with Coke's AI commercial, companies are eager to do anything that will cut their costs while maintaining profits. If it can seemingly replace a salaried position, they'll do it just to lump that amount of annual grand into the profit pile multiplied by however many people they replace with a pile of code. Who knows how long it will take them to analyze and assess if the marketing/data-entry/creative quality dip is worth the ratio in boosted profit margins.
Which, dystopically and sadly, polarizes safe human work into either menial physical labor that codeshit cannot perform but is necessary to be done (janitorial, warehouses, logistics, maintenance, construction, bodily care, etc.) or license-authorized professional work gatekept by organized legislation, boards, and the obscenely rich (law, healthcare, academics, government, private research, etc.)
Unless a legal damper is placed on AI, we're in for a really, really dim future for diverse job field employment.
Yep, there's a path to a post scarcity world due to AI, but a canyon of dystopian nightmare between here and there. Economists are going to be gathering some amazingly interesting data over the next few decades. It's just going to really suck to be part of that data.