Let’s imagine that AI will become cheaper and more efficient, it will not differ from humans in terms of the quality of its work, it will replace almost all intellectual workers, and only the operators of these AI models will have jobs, that is, one person or several people monitor the entire office of AI workers for a small salary. Yes, the AI bubble will burst, but the problems of ordinary people will only get worse from this, jobs will not return, no, automation will continue anyway.
Is it worth retraining as a mechanic, plumber or something like that?
Don’t fall for the propaganda, AI can not execute real world technical tasks at a level that is acceptable. It is good for code, creative thinking or literary but tasks which require experience, real life human interactions, it is just not ready yet.
it is lagging 10-15 years of application development and even then it is only going to be able to compete with traditional execution.