The internet was the same, there were no consumer warnings about what it could lead to …
but people aren’t afraid to talk about all the bad that the internet does either…
show me someone promoting Ai telling the whole truth about it
yeah, but we shouldn’t wait for others to tell us what to thinlk
We are the they.
the same applies
so tell us the truth then, as you are the they 
What you’ve described is a fantasy in which capitalism is self-sustaining. At which point does the consumer class start to accrue wealth after their livelihoods are made redundant?
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that’s who you think I am, not who I think I am
even when you go bungie jumping they start with in depth safety first… on a collective scale AI is and will be far more impactful than bungie jumping.
Not disagreeing with you at all, so interested in exploring the ‘if this-then that’ discussion
But I am optimistic that AI will bring a better quality of life to more people than less
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I can definitely get behind your optimism even if I don’t share it… would always support it in another human being
Don’t you see that you’re dismissing actual careers people have by describing them in the most belittling way possible but then you replace that with…
Which is nothing but a bunch of vague empty platitudes.
The reality is that it’s the middle manager types who will replace all of the creative twenty year olds because they’re using AI to do the creative work.
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You could be right, the US does look grim and shortsighted.
Only the nimble will survive. But it is a few decades since a job for life was a concept to rely on anywhere on the planet.
The American Dream is survival of the fittest, Squid/Hunger Games. The glory of the nation, always at the expense of the individual.
If 1 in 10,000,000 monkeys manages to create a successful start-up, the dream is alive. Anyone who nay-says that is a ‘communist’ seeking healthcare, education, social supports and decency.
Interesting times as competitive economies like China are streaking ahead.
The problem worldwide is only oddballs and prodigies go into politics. The normal people live life.
Back to the original point, creative human endeavour in 15 years time is going to be VERY interesting.
Odds (in the narrow vein of creativity that is music) would favour an acoustic piano/guitar playing human performer, over any music in the sequenced synth/sample realm.
They say the same for every shiny new technology. Every new technology is sold on potential not on actual performance at the moment, with little mention or assessment of known problems (kicked down the road as solvable), and little consideration of unintended consequences.
Just swap from your statement excel/powerpoint/daws for OpenAI/Claude/whatever and you have what we’ll say in another decade. We will still likely be chained to computers (although the form factor may change).
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forget AI man, build your own record label from the ground up 
this is what Suno Bros imagine they are doing when using suno
not the same thing bro
I do not share your optimism about AI.
You are framing “quality of life” mostly in terms of properties generally occurring at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (e.g. self actualization). Depictions of the hierarchy generally show a pyramid, presumably because there are more, tangible, needs in the bottom layers of the hierarchy, or to illustrate that higher levels can only be achieved by building atop lower levels. Similarly, most of the people on our planet live below the prosperity level of the upper-middle class you identify as potential beneficiaries of AI largesse. The needs of the poor are more tangible than AI can ever be expected to solve or provide for.
TL;DR: AI is bougie.
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But also the jobs that people say AI will kill are largely bougie and if it all goes down as promised a lot of people are going to be knocked down from upper middle class into poverty.
As someone who makes a living as he described “clicking away in photoshop making media for websites” wtf am I going to do if my entire career evaporates when I’m 50? It’s a reliable decent paying day job for creative people who also follow their artistic passion in their free time. Everyone I work with is a musician, painter, photographer, dj, or some other creative field on the side. Those are the people he’s celebrating losing the only thing that earns them a stable living.
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It’s annihilating the fitness coach industry.