>> Maybe displacing billions of workers will end up being pretty hard and it will take some time..<p>It's an interesting question. Do you know the concept of "Disguised Unemployment" in economics? There are too many institutions laden with too much bureaucracy and inefficiency on this planet which are ever on the target of "downsizing consultants". There are many developing countries where notaries still use type-writers to this day, banks have so many staff like cashiers who count currencies, clerks who make copy-pastes in excel sheets, etc. All these are jobs that could have been automated already but maybe it didn't happen earlier because the going was easy, there was no recession.<p>As a business owner or shareholder wealth creator, your sole interest is profit making or increase in bottom lines, you'll never care about a bunch of employees getting laid off (as it's happening right now). The main cause of this is the underlying recession, AI is just being made to take the blame for it. All those "AI guys" you talk about who keep singing the songs of GPT/LLMs are perhaps just corporate sock puppets who are made to do that as a justification for these layoffs?