Thanks @hardaeborla for your comment and we have 2 optimists already - myself included and yes I am taking count:-)

I agree with you that AI is here to stay. In the short term, there might be some dislocations but in the long term, as people adapt, new jobs will be created and people will learn and adapt to those new jobs. Infact, I posit that those new jobs will have to be better jobs than the dislocated for which society will be ultimately better off.