I think the serious answer is that it is yet another labor multiplier like electricity and software. Our tech since the industrial revolution has allowed us to elevate ourselves from a largely agrarian society to space and cyberspace. AI, by all appearances, continues to be a tool, just the latest in a long line of better tools. It still requires a human to provide intent and direction. Right now in my job, I command the collect output of a million medieval scribes. In the future I will command a million Michelangelos.

Should ML/AI deliver on the wildest promises, it will be like a SpaceX Starship for the mind.

You think so? I'm very high on the Kool-Aid, image generation and text transformation models are core parts of my workflow. (Midjourney, GPT-3)

It's still an unruly 7 year old at best. Results need to be verified. Prompt engineering and a sense of creativity are core competencies.

Stock up on guns, ammo, cigarettes, water filters, canned food, and toilet paper.