I think this frames it in the economic terms. The unstated goal is to replace human beings with robots, to get automation to do everything people can do. Which

I think this frames it in the economic terms. The unstated goal is to replace human beings with robots, to get automation to do everything people can do. Which would then render people economically useless. Which would then cause some sort of drastic change in the purpose of human life, which since the 1600 or so has been about using people to produce things that they then consume.