There is a consensus in Silicon Valley, California, and the best minds from Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle, among others. To keep it simple, it goes like this; large sections of the economy’s workforce will cease to exist with the coming of Artificial Intelligence ( AI ), and robotics. All this within 10 years. Take that as your first given fact.
People will still get paid, even if they work much less hours (not a bad thing, huh), because the economy will be producing much more than now, so the benefit will pass on to workers and citizens. Newer jobs will still be available but the vast majority of entry level jobs existing now will be eliminated by AI. In a sense, the vast majority of students in universities now will be graduating into professions that have no future. This is unless students are focusing on AI related fields, the easiest I can tell now are those students specifically studying Artificial Intelligence programming. So if you have kids in college, or recently graduated, they must pick up AI skills to be successful. Take that as second fact.
Third, crystal balling into the future, here is the problem. If people are not producing, even if they still receive money for “existing”, how can their value in life be measured? How would you feel if you had nothing to offer, no skills that are valued in the future? Can you see the issues that we are going into? Being 35, 45, 55, and being told you are obsolete. The answer would lie in areas that AI cannot replicate, like our consciousness, feelings, attitudes, connectivity to others. In other words, value would lie where we represent meaning, life, exploring, living. Can you take it from here? Project where the future is heading? I like that, kind of like, getting to know yourself, sharing with others, giving meaning to life. (image done in AI). (click on Title to view or comment)