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> 10+ years ago I expected we would get AI that would impact blue collar work long before AI that impacted white collar work. Not sure exactly where I got the impression, but I remember some "rising tide of AI" analogy and graphic that had artists and scientists positioned on the high ground.

The moment you strip away the magical thinking, the humanization (bugs not hallucinations) what you realize is that this is just progress. Ford in the 1960's putting in the first robot arms vs auto manufacturing today. The phone: from switch board operators, to mechanical switching to digital to... (I think phone is in some odd hybrid era with text but only time will tell). Draftsmen in the 1970's all replaced by autocad by the 90's. GO further back to 1920, 30 percent of Americans were farmers, today thats less than 2.

Humans, on very human scales are very good at finding all new ways of making ourselves "busy" and "productive".