I've seen people saying that with other technologies. Years later, they are still in the same job but a lot richer.

If Karpathy's "auto-research" is at all representative of typical "AI research", then presumably it will!

> The AI researchers I know often say they expect the AI to replace their own jobs.

Are they expecting the equity they get in some AI company will save them personally from economic ruin, so they're fine with that outcome for everyone else?

Or are they expecting AI technology will magically make our society communist?