Automation has been taking jobs in manufacturing and a few other industries already for many decades. Now they are using the “AI" marketing buzzword but these machines are only doing what they have already been programmed to do and aren’t capable of learning anything new on their own until a programmer updates their software.
I’m not sure how good for the economy this will be. Usually, working at a fast food restaurant is one of those things you can do as a last resort when you are unable to find employment but now that won’t even require a human workforce. More people could end up on welfare, draining resources from the government, instead of doing something productive even if it is unskilled labor.
Things were bad even before the introduction of AI in our industries, now that they have introduced the use of AI it will be more worse. The governments are already shouting that there's no vacancy to recruit more workers and also those that are working were not paid as they are supposed to be paid due to one thing and the other. now that AI is even available to replace human being, the government and company directors will be eager to get rid of human services so that they could start using AI to reduce cost. And these AI can not do things on their own, but on the way they are programmed. So still their service cannot be compared with the human.