Workers and AI: Just Keep Swimming or Change Course?

Elon and a few others say traditional jobs will soon be gone. Accurate forecast or sheer exaggeration?

Last week, maverick entrepreneur-scientist-businessman Elon Musk spoke of the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on conventional jobs and suggested that the ongoing evolution of AI might prompt a reevaluation of how people derive meaning in life when work is no longer a fundamental necessity.

Imagine most people on earth not having to go …