> Production would just reorient to who owns capital, the state, and other AI systems buying from each other.

Until those who don't own capital get upset and put the whole thing on fire.

But I don't think this video was meant to cover this case, and in the more pessimistic predictions you are not better with any other profession either. Given his assumptions I think it is an absolutely fair take. If AI becomes better in all 4 areas of math he lists, then private funding may decrease - BUT if there is ever any need for human problem solving skills, academia will not break down and this has always been the majority where mathematicians are employed/financed from.

And if this latter assumption breaks, we are in far greater trouble than whatever you chosen as a career and society will become unrecognizable to today's.