If AI can automate our work, then what’s the point of having a job?

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“Something big is happening.” That was the ominous headline of one 5000 word essay This was going around the internet last week.

The text, written by Matt Shumer, breathlessly warned that the advances AI is making are now moving so quickly that we are grossly underestimating the disruptive impact it is likely to have on almost every aspect of society.

Although written with a bias (Shumer is the CEO of an AI…