I agree, on a societal level it's a great benefit.
On an individual level, however, I'd suggest keeping an eye out for opportunities to retrain.
As an analogy, I'd rather be like the coal miners in the 80s who could read the writing on the wall and quietly retrained into something else rather than those who spent their better years striking over cuts to little avail.
It's a very daunting prospect seeing a path to unemployability, though.
Depending how quickly the change happens, it could be a gentle transition, or it could upset a lot of people.
Well, the AI job market is pretty hot, so that's an option. And I expect as things mature it'll only create even more opportunity. Projects that nobody previously would have considered, because they'd have taken too long, required too much training for too many people? Now they can happen! And for each of those things, jobs are created, not taken away.
Imagine yourself as CEO. What do you think is your most likely train of thought? A/ "I can fully replace my labor force with bots" or B/ "My employees now have superpowers to do things we couldn't even conceive of two years ago". While there are certainly some scenarios where the first choice is appropriate, the latter sounds far far more likely in most scenarios to me. Why would you contract when there's suddenly so much opportunity to expand?
On an individual level, however, I'd suggest keeping an eye out for opportunities to retrain.
As an analogy, I'd rather be like the coal miners in the 80s who could read the writing on the wall and quietly retrained into something else rather than those who spent their better years striking over cuts to little avail.
It's a very daunting prospect seeing a path to unemployability, though.
Depending how quickly the change happens, it could be a gentle transition, or it could upset a lot of people.