
Resistance to adaptation
"Nearly half (47 percent) of workers worried that AI could replace their role"
Consider some other statements about things people might currently be worried about.
- Dying in a corridor at an NHS hospital.
- How their children will be able to find/buy/afford a house.
- Electric cars
- (endless other things)
As usual the people who are most resistant to change are those who have a vested interest in it not changing. If you consider any of the points above they are really a sign that some things have moved on, whilst other related things have not. The most obvious thing being a big increase in population versus how older models for healthcare, housing and transport actually work in reality.
For instance, those who have invested into property really don't want housing to become more affordable. You can apply similar logic to the other things. Consider who is resistant to those things changing. Often a relative minority at the detriment of the majority.
That leads us to the point about jobs in this article. The people who are resistant to that changing are generally those with said jobs simply because they may otherwise be unemployed. Should they be excused from adapting simply because it affects them personally and bollocks to everyone else? We used to mine coal and some people weren't happy when that ended for them. Does that mean we should have carried on indefinitely so they personally were happy?
The people who are blocking progress on the basis they'd personally be fucked otherwise ARE the problem.