It's easy to say that we can build a robot to do anything and it'll be AI controlled. Whether that works in practice or not, time will tell.

You replace the guy putting caps on toothpaste tubes with a machine, then the guy you fired learns how to fix the machine...has job again. Until we build an AI bot to do that too I suppose.

The Cloud and all such things we do in datacenters often times require obscure manual work which again is easy to say nope w will do that with AI/robotics...and then see how well that would work. Cabling a rack would be interesting to see their thought process, realizing that a PDU line cord isn't attached and having to reach deep behind a whole crap ton of cables to get it attached properly...I suppose a humanoid could do that if trained properly.

So the doom & gloom scenario is we either all have nothing to do and robots & AI do it all for us, and we live with their bad decisions just like we do with human decisions. Cool. And what's our general stipend to be able to buy anything and support ourselves? Or will we just let most of the population starve if they weren't wealthy before AI took their jobs?

History not yet written, but I do feel like a lot of this is moving too quickly. It seems all about eliminating humans and cutting payrolls.