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hippy
You invoked that, not me.
I'd use examples like the mechanisation of farming, which saw concerned farm labourers breaking the machines that replaced them, but far fewer people spend their lives doing physical hard labour out in the open all year round now.
AI can make positive efficiency gains. When I was a post-grad student, the lab I was working with had created what was then called an expert system, that was trained to assess mammograms for signs of breast cancer. It's use meant that the medical team could focus on the mammograms it had tagged as worthy of investigation, rather than having to assess every single one themselves. This reduced their workload enormously.
Personally, I don't see any real ethical concern with systems like that.