The Relevant Question

The question of whether or not AI will displace jobs or create new jobs is an irrelevant question for a discourse. AI, at the speed and ubiquity with which it is progressing, what we conceptually know as 'jobs' may not exist.

The Cambridge dictionary defines a job as "the regular work that a person does to earn money". Given the shifting of the idea of a normal (or what is regular being defined by the middle of the bell curve) to a paradigm that is in perpetual motion, we may not have these jobs defined by "regular work".

Given that, the pertinent discussion is, what will be the defining characteristics of employment and remuneration? If everything we can conceive of came true then we need to prepare for jobs that have to do with the peripheral maintenance of the core, the core being the human expertise that is replaced by AI. You don't need maths skills (regular level) any more because conceivably you have AI being able to do all the math you need day to day business. You need someone to intervene when the inventory marked for pick and ship, is not at it's coded location, or the code itself has faded such that the reading of the code fails.

Thankfully we are at least a few decades away from this new work paradigm.