Whilst the &quot;enslave us&quot; thing is a bit alarmist, regarding it taking our jobs there&#x27;s a certain analogy here with mechanisation.<p>You pointed out (below) that historically people have often been terrified that machines would take all of our jobs, and that terror has turned out to be unfounded. But they weren&#x27;t wrong, they were just wrong in thinking it would be a bad thing.<p>Over the last 150 years, the proportion of Americans employed in agriculture has dropped from ~70% to ~2% [1]. They&#x27;ve literally been replaced by machines.<p>A large proportion of those people are now doing menial intellectual jobs that likely will be replaced by &quot;AI&quot;. A complete shift in the nature of the work we do isn&#x27;t unprecedented, and it shouldn&#x27;t be considered impossible, but it shouldn&#x27;t be considered disastrous either.<p>edit: [1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agriculture_in_the_United_States#Employment" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Agriculture_in_the_United_Stat...</a>