The future skill set will be knowing what questions to ask AI. You can’t just rock up and have it do everything, you need to sift through the BS answers it gives you and know specific wording to get to the correct answers. This is something I am personally going to pursue because while I build my models, my skill is knowing what to look for. Once AI can understand the dataset I can ask the questions which will make me 10x quicker than I am at work today. The productivity gains are enormous in my field.
This is more or less my understanding of the tech.
While I think we're globally fucked, I think this tech won't be our downfall. We're going through some newbie gains with the most recent gen of tech but I think reality has a natural way of adjusting to things.
You talk to anyone in any field, and they'll tell you that 99% of possible work is never even attempted because of cost.
Lawyers for example, most people can't afford a lawyer and end up getting one only when desperate. Low cost AI might mean having a lawyer is like having a hairdresser. Everyone can easily afford some time on legal advice/planning etc.
In terms of housing construction/cars etc, there's no reason a home/car can't be custom made and designed for each buyer.
It's perfectly reasonable to assume cars 25 years from now will all be custom makes.
The beauty of consumerism is that people having no limits to their greed, the more machines offer to us the more we want. Even if a lot of jobs like Lawyering/accounting etc turn into more customer service jobs it'll keep going.
In any economy jobs rise and fall. Some people will have to look for work elsewhere, but that's one of the perks of AI. AI can replace your job in just a few weeks, but it can also train you in on a brand new job just as quickly.