Even if we take the empirical claims from highly partisan sources at face value, obvious axiomatic problems remain. AI employment doom, like other forms of neoluddism is predicated on a zero-sum view of economics.

As an example, consider the claim, "Steam shovel adoption is destroying entry level jobs in ditch digging"

Yes, we want more productive technologies to be used where applicable. We want workers to specialize and become more productive with less hours worked. This isn't destructive at all. Framing it as such is either deliberately misleading or demonstrates a misunderstanding of basic econ.