[tejtm]

There are no mechanisms in place for the generated wealth to benefit the replaced people, the wealth will go mainly to vanishingly few persons self selected to be okay with gross economic inequality.

We have been at this since at least the dawn of the industrial revolution and do not have it right yet. Backing off and taking it slow now to let some cultural adjustments happen is a responsible step.

My cultural norms are repulsed by the thought of me not working as much as possible, it is how I expect my value to society to be gauged (and rewarded).

This line of reasoning will be (is) obsolete and we need another in its place globally.

I hope some may have better ideas of what these new cultural norms should look like than I with my too much traditional indoctrination.

I only know what I will not have it look like; humanity as vassals of non corporeal entities or elites.

[joe_the_user]

There are no mechanisms in place for the generated wealth to benefit the replaced people, the wealth will go mainly to vanishingly few persons self selected to be okay with gross economic inequality.

That hasn't stopped the march of progress so far. Conveniently (or not), humanoid robots do not appear likely for the foreseeable future. But keep worrying, the problem you list are appearing in other fashions anyway.

[visarga]

AI will impact productivity but not replace humans. We have the needs and wants, AI lends our goals, it has none of its own. We'll expand our desires to match the increased abilities and remain as busy as always. We can't even begin to imagine the future applications, and that's where most of the work will be.

The ability to train huge models does not belong to a single entity and many of these models get shared with everyone. So you can right now type "import transformers" and have thousands of trained models at your fingertips. All these toys are ours (thanks to important work done for free by some of us) we just need imagination to use them.