[generic_user]

I'm not going to claim to be smarter then anyone or have any answers to your questions. I will point out that artificial intelligence is something entirely different from automation.

You can make the case that Humans have been coping with automation from the rise of agrarian civilisation. Suddenly hunter gatherer tribes had to adapt to an entirely new social order and way of life. The industrial revolution radically transformed the world and we have muddled through and adapted. I think automation will always create winners and losers, wars, upheaval etc but civilization will adapt and continue on in some form.

Artificial intelligence that has a true self awareness and agency would be a genuinely new, never before seen phenomenon. What the consequences would be are totally unknown. There is no previous data or experience to measure.