Imagine that you are a newly minted graduate of an elite school with a STEM degree. You were told all of your life that the liberal arts were worthless, and that the passport to success was tech. To that end, you gave up more entertaining pastimes and plugged your way through school. Now, however, you are staring unemployment in the face. AI has effectively made you redundant. At best, you will scramble to find a decent job in an unrelated line of work; at worst, you can expect to either become a humble service provider for a vastly wealthy techno-aristocrat or an ungrateful recipient of a small UBI.
When the tech baron gives a speech at your graduation extolling the glories of AI, you’d boo, too. He just pulled the chair out from under you.