After reading so much science fiction about robots I’m a bit nervous about AI. Of course he Replicants in the movie Blade Runner were intended for war and off-world mining. Listened to the CBC radio clip and will read a bit more before I comment.
From Science magazine:

What can machine learning do? workforce implications
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6370/1530.full
POLICY FORUM TECHNOLOGY AND THE ECONOMY
What can machine learning do? Workforce implications
Erik Brynjolfsson1,2, Tom Mitchell3

Science 22 Dec 2017:
Vol. 358, Issue 6370, pp. 1530-1534
DOI: 10.1126/science.aap8062
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6370/1530.full