Artificial intelligence taking all of our jobs was perhaps not the headline Rishi Sunak was hoping for at the end of the two-day, AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park. But once you invite Elon Musk onto the stage, you somewhat surrender your news cycle to his whims.
The fear of technology-driven unemployment is a well-trodden intellectual cul-de-sac. No lesser authority than John Maynard Keynes wrote about it in his delightfully titled 1930 essay "Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren", which sounds like an email subject line my grandpa might have once sent me.
