A common critique of technology and socialist ideas of automation in ecological circles is that each new level of technology merely moves a worker's abstraction to a higher level, rather than actually replacing the need for work. As new forms of industry are introduced people end up employed managing and overseeing that industry and its logistics rather than doing on the ground work. I think the same thing is clearly true of A.I. Even if A.I. did steal everyone's jobs (which is unlikely, it doesn't have the depth or discernment or honesty of a human and never will), it will only move everyone's employment from "programmer," or "traffic director," or "cab driver," to "Guy who oversees Claude's code," or "Guy who oversees A.I. infrastructure projects," or "Guy who slots A.I. driving modules into cabs." The mood of our time is overtly eschatological. Populist despots are being elected everywhere, people are retreating innawoods, and just about everyone is turning to various forms of spirituality. All of us, old and young, understand intuitively that how we live is unsustainable — that being an ant-like hivemind of consumption and greed and capital can only run on so long — and we can feel that this way of living is on its last legs. So naturally we see a lot of people, pro and anti A.I., having fantasies of it as some sort of demiurgic entity that will rewrite the entire world, rendering it all in legible equation to be maximally exploited, for good or for ill depending on your perspective. This is mere fantasy, the last grasp of our materialist consumptive worldview into the void of the unknown. A hope or a fear that the logic we laid the foundations of this society on are sturdy enough to make a God in our image, that we could rebuild the entire universe in GDP if we tried hard enough. In reality, A.I. is simply the final form of court eunuch.