chop2chip
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Even for the past couple (pre AI) generations, it is likely that more lower-skilled jobs have been lost to technology than to China or immigrants or outsourcing. AI is but the latest of a long string of labor-saving technological innovations. Not a new thang in the least. And a process that can't be stopped and is ultimately good for most of us. The relevant policy question is how to provide new opportunities/compensation for those displaced by this process.
If past is prologue the low-skill low-wage jobs will become ever more concentrated in the food service, personal services and hospitality sectors. Many jobs and careers in those sectors are actually quite good.
The future is robots ordering subservient humans to serve the elite humans.
Basically, Uber but for everything.