AI can take out what are sometimes considered “low-level” jobs: junior dev, call center worker, data entry, and the uninspiring-level illustrator, designer, cinematographer, writer (esp. writers the “content creation” sort of writers). Manual labor will continue to be safe and sound (though there are not infinite jobs there) for the foreseeable future and the professor and think-tanker roles will still be relevant. The issue with that later is that their jobs are primarily paid for by people who would go to college to get degrees in “computer science,” “graphic design,” “cinema,” “English,” etc.—many of whom did fine, got their Bs, a few Cs, and occasional A, and then went on to be junior devs, do data entry, or were simply not the world’s greatest illustrator, designer, cinematographer, or writer. That is, the people who pay for the profs to do their thing may not consider it worth the cheddar. It just seems like a situation in which there will be less jobs for humans and fewer people going to college for the next few decades. So a likely decrease in both the lower white collar jobs and decrease in demand for professors. Is that right?
