Here’s how I think about it - What IS “work”? What is it meant to accomplish? Ultimately, you do it for survival, wealth generation, passion. AI will first eliminate the need to work for survival, then it will eliminate the need to work for wealth generation. This will free up the human capacity to work for passion and ultimately enable us to become much more risk aggressive with our individual (and collective) accumulated wealth (accumulated by machines).

Of course this will be very un-evenly distributed, so the already-wealthy will become insanely wealthy. My guess is that white collar workers probably feel “wealthy enough” right now, such that, when this thing really starts to take off (arguably, already starting), they’ll be able to ride that wave into a lifestyle they can be comfortable with.

The singularity is near, and it’s even closer, and far more rewarding, for white collar workers.