> Remember how a decade and a half ago everyone was convinced that taxi drivers and truck drivers would be replaced by AI in the coming years?

I remember that as an AI-car company driven hype cycle that was used to justify beta testing their cars on public roads. According to them, traffic Jams were supposed to be a solved problem and everyone would be making 20k/yr leasing out their car as a robotaxi.

With that said, the impact of AI is not equal across different industries.

Also remember when Geoffrey Hinton famously predicted all radiologists would be out of a job by now in 2016? That also didn't happen. So yeah, I would take these predictions with a massive grain of salt. So far the employment numbers in the US are looking extremely good.

Many, many predictions about job losses came true. Jobs stop existing if they can be performed automated to a large extent, this has come true for many, many jobs over time. There is a great German video series about elderly people (in their 80s or even 90s) showing the trades they learned when they were young. They were doing stuff like carving troughs out of trees, making wooden wheels, operating water powered saws and similar stuffs. None of these jobs exist anymore.

In fact it is completely natural and healthy that there is a transformation in the job market, although it can easily be a tragedy for the individual.

>So far the employment numbers in the US are looking extremely good.

Voice actors are a tiny group. They don't really factor into nation wide statistics.

Autonomous driving doesn't exist. Convincing Text to speech does, it is just a matter of tooling around it.

>Heck if anything good AI generated voiceovers will be a huge boost to the indie gaming industry.

And all other video game industries, which will also not be paying voice actors.

>Autonomous driving doesn't exist.

You haven't been paying attention. There are Waymo fully autonomous rides happening already in multiple very large cities. It exists every bit as much as AI voice acting platforms.