Regarding the "AI replacing skilled workers" thing.
I remember when this was a big deal in the 80s - when the fear was of robots replacing workers on the assembly line. It turned out that robots actually cost a lot more than hiring people in economically depressed countries to do the work, so they did that instead. But these were manual labourers who had the kind of skills that machines could replicate easily or that you could train unskilled labourers to do without too much trouble.
Now, they're talking about replacing people with jobs that require a lot of skill, jobs like programming and writing. They've already tried to outsource these jobs to countries with cheaper labour and have met with mixed results, to say the least. So they've turned to the robots again. Except these are difficult jobs that require a deeper understanding of the subject matter than robots are capable of handling.
If companies pursue this, I think they're going to experience a rude awakening.