If you haven’t seen it, @pluralistic’s essay on the Generative AI Bubble makes a nice distinction between low- vs. high-value applications of AI, along with fault-tolerant vs. fault-intolerant applications of AI.
Fault-intolerant applications are more expensive to deploy safely, and it is hard to replace fault-intolerant jobs: Supervising the AI is itself a full-time job.
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/