Good subject, Sir.
My humble take about AI:

AI is not different from other previous technological revolutions. Only in a greater scale, taking today’s already-high productivity, and will enables more.

I have seen such in 1990-2000 when semiconductor’s growth impacted traditional electronic engineering. Many defense engineers who used be in frontlines, suddenly became obsolete and redundant human resource. At the point, the popular over-50 unemployment crisis club has change into over-40. That is sad to society, a generator of high-rank engineers got their jobs wiped out. But this is a new norm. As an elder generation’s career life cut short, high-end labor structures reorganized for the new generation.

The problem: Education does not produce architects but only low-skill workers. Liberals advocates, like Burnie Sanders, claims stopping AI for it is taking jobs from labor class. What he ignored is the progressive education reforms (like in China, every 5 years the government conducts a round of education reform) never focus on the content of education, which have to be catching up with industries progression. The government aim education into Social Placement, but not knowledge growing.

In AI case, the old-fashion labor placement and living material distribution are becoming impossible. Schools at lease need to provide foundations for student’s advanced and broad knowledges, especially in methodology of learning. Just get them prepared for learning and become architect, instead of “code-peasants” (Chinese literally have created the modern term “码农”).

BTW, China is the most complete socialist regime in the world, Western liberals cannot catch them up in that. If they truly understand Marxism, they’d understand the principle well. What China does is also wrong in socialist principles. They should have believed what Marx and Lenin pointed out: Product Surplus and Extra Value are capitalism’s two advanced crisis. The oxymoron cannot resolve itself, due to the social system. Thus, all they against and transform their own society, are also hopelessly in a fashion of oxymoron.