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"Artificial intelligence is coming for your job." That's been the mantra of skeptics, naysayers, and even pragmatic analysts for years. A quick Google search will yield dozens, if not hundreds, of articles, such as this Mother Jones article by columnist Kevin Drum, on how the expansion of AI and robotics is going to radically shift the job market for the worse as we offload tasks, such as assembly and even driving and customer service, normally performed by humans to machines. Even Bill Gates and politicians in the European Union have voiced concerns over AI contributing to mass unemployment and suggested that perhaps the robots that replace humans should be taxed as a means of funding universal basic income. Proponents of AI will tell workers not to worry, that AI is only going to augment their job, or better yet, take over their menial, repetitive job so that they can move on to a more complex (and assumed more rewarding) position.