How AI could create a world of haves and have-nots

Add to this the geopolitical implications, recently outlined in an important op-ed by Kai Fu Lee, and even weak AI can be seen as something scary. We need to be proactive and create alternative career paths for people as AI impacts jobs and takes away many employment opportunities. But as autonomous vehicles run by AI take over for taxi drivers (and make transportation more reliable and faster while opening up spaces currently occupied by parking garages) and robots with AI take over all but the most specialized work on factory floors (reducing production costs, which will hopefully translate into less-expensive goods), blue collar workers will have few alternatives positions to pivot to. Added to all of this are the foreign policy implications of AI, which Kai Fu Lee addresses insightfully in his recent piece.