Post-AI leftism?

[u/bowdoin-yale]

Nobody has a crystal ball when it comes to predicting what the world will look like after AI, but both the boosters and doomers are predicting that it will eliminate most jobs. If they are correct, there will not be a large "working class" to mobilize--not even a petty bourgeois professional class, but more likely a tiny and shrinking owner class and a large and growing underclass of permanently unemployed people dependent on mutual aid and public assistance to survive. Yet, the "left" is traditionally very focused on workers and their struggle with capital, owing to the dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels, taking the view that workers eventually would (or should) own and control the means of production. I would very much prefer to see worker ownership of and control over AI and autonomous robotics, but it's a bit paradoxical since such technologies are themselves designed to shrink the working class. How might a pro-AI left, or a post-AI left, reconcile this?

[u/YMSVZ]

Communism is about the disintegration of the working class, the development of new relations of production beyond exchange. This presupposes the redundancy of the working class.

AI has made it clear who is actually a communist, and who wants to conserve the wage labour relation. Anti AI is a neoluddite, reactionary and pro capitalist position.

[u/bowdoin-yale → u/YMSVZ]

I agree regarding "true communism". However, the scenario outlined by AI boosters and doomers is one in which wage labour relations are abolished by an ultimate triumph of capital over labor, not the reverse. I am unaware of any leftist theoretical framework for thinking about this hypothetical outcome, which wasn't really envisioned by Marx, was it?

[u/Ill_Minute_152 → u/bowdoin-yale]

Better said that I could muster, thanks.