useless, from an economic perspective
(Emphasis mine.) The article gives no reason to think that AI will make billions of humans actually useless. Only that it will make them unable to earn enough money to live on by selling their labour. These are not the same thing.
I am sure one can come up with a... modest proposal to do something about those billions X-)
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