This is true. The higher levels are most definitely safer and it very much is just a tool (My normal response to people who are in areas that are affected by it are that they can profit from it or be destroyed by it, but they can’t fight it)
However, no pun intended (not really resisted either) it’s raising the bar to getting that first job.
Adding onto that, the ones who’ll do well are probably going to be the ones with the knowledge to combine law and IT and actually effectively use them as tools. Someone who can do that is going to be rolling in cash. Someone who can’t has a good chance of never getting that first break.
I’ve got a couple of female high school students staying with me (homestays) — I’ve tried encouraging them to actually get started in IT, as it affects literally every field, giving someone who’s got a better idea of how to use these tools that same massive advantage, but the basic concept just isn’t there. It’s difficult, so they’re not interested. This applies to the one going to an all-girls school as much as the coed public school one. It’s more than a little sad as they’re both extremely intelligent.
Now obviously the next point of concern isn’t what happens now, but what happens over the next twenty to thirty years. Someone who’s just turned twenty can expect a career that’ll last about fifty years, assuming retirement at seventy. If AI progresses in that field (obviously there’ll be someone experienced checking the results, but that’ll be for the tricky stuff and still wont’ take nearly as much effort as coming up with a solution in the first place) then that’s a career that’s killed halfway through. Obviously they’ve got plenty of warning, but for whatever reason, too many just assume it’ll never affect them, then get amazed when this thing that’s been openly building up for literal decades knocks them out of the game.
For what it’s worth here, Linux DevOps engineer recently working for IBM. Which had led me to taking a close interest in Watson, which had in turn led me to what’ll probably be the one area where AI is almost purely benign. Check out Watson Teacher Advisor at some point. (I’m from a family of teachers and am married to a teacher)