No it isn't, and I say that as a user and Integrator of ML tech.
Climate Change: Literally our planetary habitat becoming uninhabitable for our species.
Russia: A country with one of the largest nuclear arsenals literally threatening a large portion of the world with nuclear annihilation.
Excuse me when the prospect of changes in the economic landscape for white collar jobs doesn't look particularly frightening compared to such problems. Especially since we live in a day and age where 2 entire generations have lived most of their lives in almost constant economic upheavals anyway.
As for all the AI-doomerism that's flying around the net: As long as no one can even give me a precise, quantifieable definition of "general intelligence", aka. one that doesn't include pointing at ourselves, and a method to measure how far AI is from that, I will work under the assumptions confirmed by what is measureable and observable: that what we have are still stochastic inference engines.
