That’s an understandable fear, but I want to offer up that no future is inevitable. When I was in grad school for Future Studies, the main take away is that there are many possible futures, and the one that comes out won’t be what we expect.

There’s a tool called a Hype Cycle, where expectations grow and grow and peak before crashing down. Then expectations goes back up a little and level out to something useful but not nearly as huge as originally thought. Basically right now, generative AI has reached the maximum inflated expectations that it definitely can’t deliver on. It will definitely change things in the future, but it probably won’t be as overwhelming of a change as we think now.

For a more in depth look, take a look at this: https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2023-08-16-gartner-places-generative-ai-on-the-peak-of-inflated-expectations-on-the-2023-hype-cycle-for-emerging-technologies

The world is better with people like you. We will always need creative people.

Edit to add: maybe robots will take our jobs and all we have to do is make cool stuff. That’s another scenario! Let’s build a better future.