“Payment for all workers who develop fields or man factories would cost the companies that operate them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in salary paymen

“Payment for all workers who develop fields or man factories would cost the companies that operate them hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in salary payments” - slavers, probably. Of course slavery != AI, but the argument that we should protect companies from their expenses to enable their bad business model is very entitled and presumptuous. Thousands of companies have failed because their businesses models didn’t work, and thousands more will. AI will be fine. It probably won’t be as stupidly lucrative as the current model, but we’ll find a way.