I have been watching the evolving debate on the threats of general artificial intelligence. There is the hard core philosophical stuff, beloved of movies of an AI takeover, as in the Terminator movies. But, before all that there is the realistic threat of vast job replacement. Extracted below are accounts of how AI is replacing people left, right and centre. For example, many thought that it would be a long time before AI replaced software workers, hence the mantra, learn coding, usually made by those who cannot code. But a recent experiment showed that OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is still early days in general AI, can operate an entire software company with minimal human intervention! If AI can do this now, its capacities for job replacement in the future are frightening.