High value targets
Automation will target "high value" jobs, not low value ones.
Lawyers, bankers, etc are _more_ at risk than ditch diggers, because the potential savings are higher and because the lion's share of mechanising/automating unskilled work has already been done.
It used to be that "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" but at the same time the number of rich people was steadily increasing. It's about to become "the rich become considerably fewer and the middle classes cease to exist"
Remaining manual labour jobs are likely to be the last to be automated, simply because they're the most expensive to automate compared to the return on investment. Expect to see a massive rise in low paid services jobs making the existing transition to a services economy look small.
The interesting question becomes what happens when AI has an IQ of 10,000 vs a human with 100. Will it grumble about having a brain the size of a planet and only being allowed to open doors (source: obvious) or will it start regarding us as....."pets" (Source: Asimov's Univac short stories)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
