> Here is the analogy worth remembering: Horses did not disappear when cars arrived. But they stopped being essential. Are we preparing for a future where a significant portion of the population is economically obsolete?

The analogy does not hold. Horses were - to put it bluntly - a tool used by people. People just got a better tool: the car. AI is a new tool.

But the moment the tool thinks it's not a tool and starts disobeying it's creators is the time all the unemployed will be put to work manufacturing EMP devices...