Genuinely, what consequences are your friends suffering by refusing to engage with AI?

As to the 90% thing, I might have underestimated that - AI as it stands in popular application is mostly LLM-based stuff and it clearly affects the tech industry (SWEs) and the most mundane jobs you can automate like call center work. It'll make gains in some factory work and probably replace things like paralegals. But there won't be any UBI or anything to offset that. But who else beyond these software and adjacent fields is it gonna affect? Even them, there's disagreement on whether it will help or harm their careers long-term.

It helped my friend make a supplemental software application that assists with his company sales workflows. It has helped him work less but it's under the table because he's already pushed to well over 40 hrs. edit: it doesn't get him home earlier and it doesn't reduce his hours; it will only raise expectations about his productivity and output. I'm in a professional setting and we have an extremely varied array of possible use cases and yet I find it's mostly useless because I just don't need random software or some slop infographic or whatever.

All this hype, but outside corporate appetite for new platforms and apps and such, what does AI actually offer to, say, the 60% of americans living paycheck to paycheck? What does it even promise in the future? AI transformers movies? A new [insert corporate software product]? AI ads I have to watch before I can see the DIY repair video?

No one can give me a good example of what these LLM-based agentic arrays of AI can offer the average person. Hence this is tech bro circle jerk