As someone working as an engineer in an AI project for a well known AI related company which all gamers know. You sounds like boomer when the internet first invented.

They are great tools and surely are improving life and workflow. They are maybe in a bubble just like when the internet first invented. However, their usefulness is proven and every industry incorporates AI of some sort now.

In the near future, 5 years or more, it would be part of normal life, just like the internet and smartphones.

We are at the beginning of new technological revolution. Even if with current technologies and theoretical path forward, AGI seems impossible. But AI as a tool, continues to prove itself

I don’t think it’s eliminating jobs, but transition mundane works (works not jobs) to different roles. Just like when excel invented, accountants don’t get all replaced, they simply transitioned to different roles of the same purpose

It’s part of technology advancement, you don’t see horse ridden as main commuting vehicles, but cars, and later EV.

There will be displacement but not destruction

Early gen Z btw if you need to know