I don't dispute your retort because the post you are replying to was worded to sound very absolute, but...
AI doesn't have to replace 100% of all humans to have a huge impact on unemployment. If you introduce a system allowing 4 people to do the job 5 used to do you're setting the stage for 20% unemployment, which is a huge deal at scale, and also the 4-to-5 ratio is very conservative for a lot of modern automation projects.
Are there many fields where AI/robots will be doing 100% of the work in the near future? No... next to none, I'd think... but there are LOTS of fields where they will be doing a huge amount of the work while being supervised by a relatively skeleton crew of humans sanity checking their work.
AI doesn't have to replace 100% of all humans to have a huge impact on unemployment. If you introduce a system allowing 4 people to do the job 5 used to do you're setting the stage for 20% unemployment, which is a huge deal at scale, and also the 4-to-5 ratio is very conservative for a lot of modern automation projects.
Are there many fields where AI/robots will be doing 100% of the work in the near future? No... next to none, I'd think... but there are LOTS of fields where they will be doing a huge amount of the work while being supervised by a relatively skeleton crew of humans sanity checking their work.