I love how you quote McKinsey as your reliable source of what AI can do. No other firm has their head quite so far up the posterior of the owners of technology and capital as they do. The McKinsey estimate is probably vastly skewed in some way, like it was estimated in 2015 for tech up to 2016.



Those who actually work with AI say that virtually ANY job that uses pattern recognition is doomed in the long run, and that is 90% of all jobs, including writing articles on Project Syndicate about AI displacing jobs.



When the tractor was invented employment in agriculture went from 90% of the population to about 1%. AI will do the same thing to current white and blue collar jobs.



Training won't help either, radiologists are already out of a job, soon oncologists will not needed, then GP will become defunct when Watson and Deepmind go public with their AI that diagnoses from symptoms. Finally, surgeons will be done away with. And medicine is the field with the highest education requirements.



What is really needed is not some insipid tax adjustment but rather a fundamental change in the ownership structure of corporations. It needs to move from shareholders to community ownership. I understand this is mind boggling for most economic pundits but without it the only jobs left will be those you hope you children will never take up: hairdresser, prostitute or economist.