In a recent talk LeCun said, in 2021 we can formulate natural language queries over a corpus and get back relevant snippets or even answers. His example was wikipedia, but of course this is more general. If this happens, this progress in the NLP subfield of ML alone would make millions of jobs obsolete, where a person does some research and copy and pastes information into a document.

The point being: You do not need general AI anytime soon, the consequences will still be significant, I would bet.