The right or wrong of the opposing opinions depends on your perspective.
Since the currently powerful companies support antihuman and government control ideology programmers, we are certainly headed for a "Dark age". I don't know about the rest of the world, but the upcoming generation in this country doesn't seem to be able to deal with the reality of life as it is, let alone massive job obsolescence due to new technologies.
In the long run, new technologies do create better jobs for those able to adapt. Hopefully AI will advance technology fast enough before the worlds governments convince us to destroy ourselves at war.