They can say but that it still isn&#x27;t true. Read the journals. Many of these professions which are supposed to disappear cannot  actually be &quot;made to disappear&quot; because of a slightly better version of a primitive algorithm. It seems pretty obvious if you just stop and think about what would actually need to happen.<p>Autonomous vehicles, fine. If you ignore all the things that currently make transportation complicated, it&#x27;s a fairly simple problem. I mean hell in the 1800s, they just put the vehicles on tracks with an engine and they were done. But most &quot;white collar job&quot; roles, if you get past cynical jokes, are actually well beyond the state of the art of AI research.<p>I mean, I love science fiction; I&#x27;m a big fan. But I&#x27;m also like a realist ...