Yep. A lot of "tech" people who thought their jobs were safe as blue-collar jobs were replaced by robots are going to be in for a surprise.
Much like the 1980s, when white collar manual data-entry work as replaced by computers.
Blue collar manufacturing jobs were not replaced by machines, they were replaced by other people in other countries. Machines have been created to make humans more productive and efficient but those machines have also been moved to other countries to make them more productive and efficient. Our people in this country bought in to the idea because they thought they would get better jobs in offices instead of factories.
Artificial Intelligence is a concept that is based on the robot from Lost in Space or Rosie from the Jetsons. The telling of the story of AI is an effort to distract from actual useful news like a senile president and a very expensive war being lost and a flood of criminals from other countries. Whatever jobs we didn’t send off shore we brought the other shore in to fill, at a lower price. Talking about AI is like worrying about climate change.