If you make a claim about mass poverty and unemployment, you are making the extraordinary claim. The fact remains that extreme poverty has been trending down an

If you make a claim about mass poverty and unemployment, you are making the extraordinary claim. The fact remains that extreme poverty has been trending down and is at record lows. If you argue for a dramatic change, you must provide evidence. Claiming new automation and new technologies will affect poverty negatively is an extraordinary claim. Everyone can agree that AI will dramatically lower food prices until they near the price of raw production, therefore it's pretty laughable to claim that the lowest food prices ever will coincide with more poverty. It's a fundamentally Kaczynski-esque argument, that AI is evil and must be curtailed. Moreover, it's an argument that humans should be enslaved to agri fields, enslaved to cubicles and enslaved to dangerous oil rigs forever. Humans don't want to destroy their body toiling forever, they want to live.