I still disagree. People SHOULD be afraid of AI. Not just because it might turn the world into paperclips, but because it can already do this blog author's job almost as good as he can, but at arbitrarily larger volume and 1000's of times faster. It is very likely that in a year or two it will be better than him at his 'witty' and 'cutting' shallow commentary, but even if it's only 85% as good it will be available way way sooner and on every single topic you can imagine. He's toast. A lot of us are toast.
Edit: AI doesn't make Stephen King redundant, AI isn't better than the best humans, or even close. Lets assume it never will be that good (not a good assumption but lets assume.) Most of us are very mediocre, even at things we make our living at. Most software engineers are poor or mediocre (a statistical tautology) and AI is better than a lot of them already. Most authors aren't very good and nobody will remember their work, but they can still find work and get paid for it. A huge fraction of those jobs are just going to go away.
Edit: AI doesn't make Stephen King redundant, AI isn't better than the best humans, or even close. Lets assume it never will be that good (not a good assumption but lets assume.) Most of us are very mediocre, even at things we make our living at. Most software engineers are poor or mediocre (a statistical tautology) and AI is better than a lot of them already. Most authors aren't very good and nobody will remember their work, but they can still find work and get paid for it. A huge fraction of those jobs are just going to go away.