It'll always be 20 years away in mainstream public's head until it is right in front of our faces.

I predict entire fields will be mostly automated very sporadically, the first will make major headlines, until all of a sudden it goes into freefall.

No actual good UBI discussion will happen until a lot of very preventable unemployment suffering already occurred.

Society will eventually adapt to AI scams and related crimes, but a large vulnerable population of mostly elderly will be hit, major legislation and financial regulations will be reactionary to these after a year or two of chaos to curb the scams.