Eh-yup.
I wonder how long it takes for everyone to get the picture. Technology is going to kill tons of jobs in a great multitude of sectors. As AI develops, even a lot of white-collar jobs are going to become obsolete. Now here's the twist
That should be and could be a good thing.
This is the whole point, after all. Throughout history, increasing production efficiency is one of the few kinds of ways technology has generally helped us. This increases in production efficiency have lead to more leisure, more safety, and in turn lead to larger amounts of investment in creative endeavors by the population. It has both increased the quality of life directly and has also made the way for the further advancement of civilization (thus indirectly increasing quality of life).
This time around should be no different. But what unfortunately happens is that we tend to build social institutions around the technology we have. Duh, that's kind of hard to avoid. But they can get very elaborate, and when some knew game changing technology comes along, it breaks the institution. To the extent that a society is unable to adapt and setup new institutions around the new reality that technology has brought, negative consequences are suffered.
I think of automation as a good thing. Something that has enormous potential to do good that can be and almost assuredly will be unlocked (unless civilization destroys itself first, which would be pretty soon in this case). The question is how unnecessarily painful society is going to make process of unlocking that potential. The less, the better, but I'm confident that even the worst costs we can inflict on ourselves will not outweigh the benefits of automation in the long wrong.