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Its threat to jobs wouldn't be anywhere near so much an issue if people just.. Had medical care and food and housing regardless of employment status.
As is, it's primarily a tool for the ultra wealthy to boost productivity while cutting costs, aka humans. All of which resulting profit and power will just further line the pockets of the 1%.
I'd have no issue with AI... If and only if we fixed the deeper societal problems first. As is, it's salt in the wounds and can't just be ignored.
Almost any innovation in human history has been used by the elite to advance their own selves first. That just happens to be the nature of power and wealth, it affords you opportunities that wouldn't be available to plebs.
We would still be sitting around waiting for the wheel to become commonplace if the adoption criteria was to wait for all societal problems to be fixed before its spread through society.