The source of your 16% projection? Did you read the report?
New jobs will be created but they'll require new skillsets we're not training for.
Things may be fine in the long run, but it will be incredibly disruptive in the short term, and 6% unemployment is huge, with ripple effects throughout the economy and long-term implications before things improve.
As for the Industrial Revolution keep in mind that it created a massive number of new kinds of jobs that had never existed before. What's happening now is far more incremental.
At some point, we're going to have to have a conversation as a society about how we value people's time. I wouldn't minimize the potential disruption we're looking at.
Not that there's any stopping it, nor that it's not necessarily, ultimately, a good thing. It's just going to come with considerable pain.