A lot of digitization and AI potential isn't really that advanced. Most of it is simply removing non-creativethink requiring tasks from the workspace. Those task take up a lot of time though, and that's why it's going to change the world.
I already talked about how nobody noticed that jobs were being lost to retirement, but that's really only part of it. Another important factor has been the size of workforce generations, which had been decreasing for the past decades, meaning that our overall unemployment rates didn't go up.
We're at the bottom of that curve though, and if you look at unemployment rates solely for young people, then you'll notice how they have exploded.
Which was replaced by lots of mechanics, factory workers, marketers, office workers and salesmen. A lot of jobs were created by automating away the horse. I wonder how many people predicted that back then?
I don't see much evidence yet that AI is going to automate most existing jobs, unless Google, FB, Hitachi, etc is secretly on the cusp of AGI. The current machine learning isn't anywhere near that. This is being blown out of proportion, but it's always been since the beginnings of AI.
Maybe someday. Or 20 years from now, along with cold fusion and flying cars.