Early retirement : Does AI mean less years worked per lifetime?

Will early retirement be the norm this century? With every passing AI headline, even the futurists among us are increasingly shaken. In what reads like the Book of Revelation, we've been forewarned of an impending robot Armageddon. Make no mistake, there is enough in the air that reeks of a slowly percolating paradigm shift. In fact, don't be so hard on thee as the trepidation, that's going around like some super-bug, follows.