A lot of people are worried about A.I. resulting in everybody becoming unemployed. Here are two examples from history (among many) to show why such fears are unfounded.
When sound recording first became available, many musicians were worried that they would soon be out of work. If their singing or playing could be recorded, then nobody would ever need to hire them again to perform.
In fact, the opposite happened. Those musicians who were willing to be recorded became much better known, because many more people could hear their music. Those musicians started to get a lot more gigs, because they had become well known and had developed a much larger fan base.
When movies came out a lot of people worried about unemployment in the theater. If you can film a play just once and then show it as often as you want, what’s the point of continuing to hire actors?
As we now know, theater is doing just fine, because movies turned out to be a very different medium, once it was properly understood. In addition, movies created entirely new categories of gainful employment, such as film crew, film editor, camera operator, location manager and cinematographer (among many others), which have no parallel in theater.
Yes, some jobs will become redundant as A.I. continues to evolve, just as we no longer have those telephone operators that you see in movies from the 1940s. But if history is any guide, many more new categories of jobs will be created.