I'm pro-AI and skeptical of the whole idea that there will be mass unemployment and we'll need UBI., Throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, tons of jobs have been automated, but more jobs have come up. It's called "creative destruction" in economics. We just don't know what will come up (if we did, we'd be billionaires). For example, there are probably tens of thousands of elevators in NYC alone. In the early 20th century they all needed probably 3 shifts of operators to run them 24x7. Then, the self-driving elevator came. Just like self-driving cars, people were like "no way! I wouldn't trust it." Now it's normal. All those tens of thousands of jobs went away, but new jobs took their place. Always happens. A person in the 20th century would be puzzled by the idea of an app developer. Phones created a whole App Store ecosystem.
McDonald's is a modern example. When McDonald's got kiosks, people thought McDonalds would have less employees, but they don't. Covid happened and 1. Drive thru took off, 2. They created mobile ordering, where you place the order online, drive to a numbered spot, type in the number, and they bring out the food. So, McDonalds ended up keeping people, they just moved them to the back, drive thru, and parking lot.
