While the sector did pop up, the number of employed went down. Looking at the number of people apple or Google employ, versus what like sears and GM did during their hay day, it's drastically lower.

>True but we did get the entirety of the IT sector and that must be a lot of new jobs and they also pay pretty well compared to those jobs you listed. I don't know what that means in terms of economics or low skilled workers im just making an observation

Funny that you are talking about the IT sector because in the company where I am working we are already using AI assisted programming to assist our programmers in coding. Compared to 3 years ago we are seeing vast improvements in both complexity and efficiency. Obviously I am not allowed to speak on the technology which we are using.

I know there are opinions on this with many feeling that Programming/coders will be one of those jobs holding the last bastion against replacement by AI because simply to code is not enough but you will need levels of creativity to design a programming, which an AI might not have at our current level and not to mention testing as well.

Personally, from what I've seem with regards to the advancement it's only a matter of time. Heck just look at GPT-3

The pool of people that were typists is very different than the pool of people who can program and maintain AI and computer equipment. I'm afraid the bottom 50% of the population will be unemployable.