The benefits largely accrued to the poorest people.

It made food cheaper.

On the contrary, humanity spent nearly its entire existence calorically deficit, and until mechanized farming did we finally see health outcomes improve, height increase, IQ increase, and populations explode.

Productivity gains in the case of mechanized labor got everyone out of subsistence farming and into factories.

AI gets everyone out of every job and into nothing.

> AI gets everyone out of every job and into nothing.

Why is mechanized thinking going to do that? When mechanized labor didn't?

> Why is mechanized thinking going to do that? When mechanized labor didn't?

You're right. There is technically a category of work that relies on neither our ability to do physical labor nor excessive thinking. It just relies on being a human.

The conclusion is thus obvious: AI is going to push us all into careers as photo models, OF-creators, and social media influencers! /s