Oh yeah, the basic income thing I just threw in there because I think even in the best case where the disempowered and soon-to-be unemployed workers will be car

Oh yeah, the basic income thing I just threw in there because I think even in the best case where the disempowered and soon-to-be unemployed workers will be cared for, humanity will be reduced to AI-governed content consumers without much agency left (cf "The Machine Stops"). That said, I agree that it's more likely that the almost all of the returns of this AI-based rationalization will flow towards the wealthy, as usual.