The coming of machines has always done so. It has removed a class of human beings who were doing the work that was subsequently taken up by the machine. It changed the manual work into mechanical work, business that needed direct dealing between the seller and the buyer into invisible transactions, the warrior into flying machines and the thinker into a ready-made manufactured answer. Of course man is still required but his main function now is to operate the appropriate instrument. This is what AI will do, is already doing.
A whole section of humanity will lose its job and another major section will lose its humanness. But amidst all this upheaval and collapse, a new humanity will rise, is already rising which will rise beyond humanity itself into a new being and a new race with very different means of feeling, perceiving, knowing and living that the machines are far from replicating.
Affectionately,
Alok Da
