Short answer:
Capitalists were primarily concerned about "extracting surplus value" eg: manufacturing something in such a way as to capture a high yield of profit.
Fighting against this was the empirically sound observation that of N units of time the tendency for the rate of profit to fall to 0% was probability of 1.
So in a convergence towards N=1 you have a point where it makes sense for the capitalist to replace workers with automation. But of course as Marx would put it the internal contradictions of capitalism stops this from being a long term trend because tendency of profit to fall will accelerate.
Long answer read Marx or a blog about non-linear complex systems relating to marx:
https://thenextrecession.wordp...
Firstly AI progress is oversold.
That is apparent because of who's selling the idea of imminent human being replacements: Tech CEO's.
So who inspires the CEO's vision: Futurists.
Even when you read the stuff closely. Ray Kurzweil and others are saying the really replacement AI is 40-80+ years off.
What they are actually saying is there is a linear move towards more sophistication with censors, actuators and algorithms barring a black swan event where sentient AI is born or some unpredictable breakthrough. So think about that from a policy makers perspective.
So we're being sold the inevitability of imminent human replacement when all they mean is:
We have a truck that can drive the interstate (not rural roads with pot holes, animal crossings etc) looks like everyone who dries a truck is now redundant.
There are a lot of caveats and it would take a naive person be swayed completely by the truth of their arguments.
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Short answer: Capitalists were primarily concerned about "extracting surplus value" eg: manufacturing something in such a way as to capture a high yield of profit. Fighting against this was the empirically sound observation that of N units of time the tendency for the rate of profit to fall to 0% was probability of 1. So in a convergence towards N=1 you have a point where it makes sense for the capitalist to replace workers with automation. But of course as Marx would put it the internal contradictions of capitalism stops this from being a long term trend because tendency of profit to fall will accelerate. Long answer read Marx or a blog about non-linear complex systems relating to marx: https://thenextrecession.wordp...
Firstly AI progress is oversold. That is apparent because of who's selling the idea of imminent human being replacements: Tech CEO's. So who inspires the CEO's vision: Futurists. Even when you read the stuff closely. Ray Kurzweil and others are saying the really replacement AI is 40-80+ years off. What they are actually saying is there is a linear move towards more sophistication with censors, actuators and algorithms barring a black swan event where sentient AI is born or some unpredictable breakthrough. So think about that from a policy makers perspective. So we're being sold the inevitability of imminent human replacement when all they mean is: We have a truck that can drive the interstate (not rural roads with pot holes, animal crossings etc) looks like everyone who dries a truck is now redundant. There are a lot of caveats and it would take a naive person be swayed completely by the truth of their arguments.