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I'm all for robots doing all the dangerous, dirty, boring and otherwise undesirable work that humans do. I think the big problem here is that in a neoliberal society this just means that the people who would be doing shit work for shit wages are now welcome to curl up and die while the owners of the robotic laborers reap all the benefits. Capitalism simply isn't equipped to deal with the consequences of full automation in a way that's even remotely beneficial to the working class.
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Despite AI being recent, this problem is very well documented in Marxist literature for over a century. Based on the organic composition of capital, the two forms of capital is constant (nature, machines, etc.) and variable capital (workers). When you automate work, that means more variable capital becomes constant capital. But that also means that you can't exploit it like you exploit humans through surplus value. So while it makes sense in the short term for capitalists, this is also a factor that leads to an economic crisis and everything that follows it.