>Imagine if AI does destroy millions of jobs and these workers cannot adapt instantly. What do you think will happen?

Those who lost their jobs can be provided with a Universal Basic Income funded by the businesses that made them redundant. That way businesses save on costs while people don't lose a cent. I concede it's very idealistic but it's definitely possible, dare I say even likely should democracy not collapse.

I think it would be more productive to plan ahead in a similar vein to the paragraph above instead of attempting to barricade the march of progress.

>Chat Control proposal

That proposal is terrifying. Obliging providers to search through private correspondence is a surefire slope toward the EU becoming a mass surveillance superstate.

The industrial revolution was horrible in the short term, but without it, we would still be serfs with an objectively worse standard of living.

Also, technology is the best shot we have at achieving a post-scarcity society.