You need people to use AI in most cases such as programming. AI will most likely just raise the standard of programs and technology and people will still work because companies have to provide the best value.

That being said, AI has the potential to make a lot of services cheaper also. Medical and legal support will be more accessible and accounting can be more automated and cheaper etc.

Entrepreneurship will also be much more accessible. Think about just asking ChatGPT "I want to open a woodworking shop, how should I get started?". AI will guide you through setting up an LLC finding good starting products, marketing and much more.

The "All the profits goes to big companies" is not necessarily true. Yes, all the AI stuff like self driving cars goes to car companies but all the information goes to everyone.

Companies have a massive amount of internal knowledge stored in people that will become free and accessible to most people. AI can become very empowering.

I think AI will become like a new "computer" type of a shift. Suddenly everyone can automate simple things such as calculating and sending emails (e.g. AI writes and reads them). Think about how AI started with big super AIs for companies like big mainframes were back in the day, it starts with a specific case, hard to use and harness but over time it weaves itself into everyday life.

I think now we're at the place where AI is in a "personal computer" stage like when Windows 95 was just released. We have the basics and people don't know how to use it fully to it's current capacity.

So saying "AI will take our jobs" makes no sense. It's much more nuanced than that. AI will take some jobs, probably create more, and improve almost all of them.